[PATCH] Three regex speedups, one of which is actually a bugfix
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Sat Jan 3 09:49:00 GMT 2004
> I've done some testing. For the C locale the patched code has
> altogether very minute benefits, with an UTF-8 locale the benefits are
> larger. I've applied the patch.
The patch should be conditional on the availability of local-exec TLS variables. So
either in glibc or in non-PIC code (it is conservative), and the code should compile
on older C compilers, even 2.95 and non-gcc, because regex is used also by sed or
gawk or other programs. Please revert.
Paolo
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