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Re: Berkeley Regex - was: fixincludes jumbo patch 2
- To: korbb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Berkeley Regex - was: fixincludes jumbo patch 2
- From: John Wehle <john at feith dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:30:33 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at egcs dot cygnus dot com, autogen at linuxbox dot com
> Zack Weinberg submitted a fixincl patch for many things.
> I have asked him under private email to break up and
> simplify the patch. I am pulling out one issue here
> in order to get consensus before installing. The issue
> is whether or not the Berkeley regex processing is okay
> for inclusion or not. It will apparently cut processing
> time by another 60% yielding a 7-fold improvement over the
> original script. I don't get particularly excited over the
> Berkeley vs. GNU license debate, but I would hate to
> replace the gnu-regex only to have to put it back.
Another option is to use GNU rx which appears to be a more
current, faster, and correct regular expression library
than GNU regex. I don't know how it compares to the Berkeley
implementation.
-- John
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