On Jan 10, 11:38 am, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > >> There is a patch with a improved regex implementation which should also > > >> be faster. Not sure how complete and stable it is. > > > > Still waiting for someone to write an extensive set of tests for this. > > > Otherwise I believe it is complete. > > > We already have RE tests in test24, test36, test43, test44, test46, > > test64, test79, test80 > > > What other tests would you need? > > A lot. Every possible combination of RE patterns need to be tested. > Also how greedy a pattern is, where partial matches are located, etc. > Anything that might break. >
Isn't this a bit of a tall order? Maybe a better solution is to release it "in the wild", maybe with a temporary (or even a compile- time) option to turn it on, and see what breaks? I'm worried it will never get included if we really need to test every combination of patterns. > We also need performance tests, to find out if the new engine is slower > in certain circumstances. > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
