From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 938d252 4/4: Make regex matching reentrant; update syntax during match
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:04:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180619130415.3e9eb123@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zhzqwwbp.fsf@newartisans.com>
On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:54:50 -0700 "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
wrote:
> >>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> PE> If we're going to go to that much work, why not use glibc
> PE> regex? It uses a DFA and falls back on backtracking only when
> PE> needed. Although glibc regex isn't maintained that well, it's
> PE> at least maintained, which TRE is not. And it does have some
> PE> advantages: it has an API that is like Emacs src/regex.c, and
> PE> it won't have any licensing issues. Its main disadvantage (it
> PE> doesn't support split buffers) could be overcome fairly easily,
> PE> either by adding support for that back into the library, or
> PE> arranging for a single array whenever the regex matcher is
> PE> called.
>
> If we do find a problem with it, how long will it take before the
> fix we need is propagated everywhere it needs to go?
Which package was the referent for "it"?
--
Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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[not found] ` <20180616204653.86AFC203CB@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-06-17 18:42 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 938d252 4/4: Make regex matching reentrant; update syntax during match Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 18:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-17 19:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-17 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-18 15:59 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-18 17:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 13:40 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 13:44 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 13:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 14:30 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 14:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 14:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 15:37 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 16:20 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 16:27 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-19 18:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 18:26 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 16:54 ` John Wiegley
2018-06-19 17:04 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-19 18:20 ` John Wiegley
2018-06-19 18:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 18:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 18:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-19 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-19 14:46 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-19 14:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-19 15:32 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-18 23:25 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-19 1:30 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-19 22:54 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-20 1:17 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-20 23:26 ` Richard Stallman
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