From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex.c simplification
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:35:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180616123549.3203b454@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2b6d5419e6d86dc502c2fffcef62d02.squirrel@dancol.org>
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:35:34 -0700 "Daniel Colascione"
<dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
> I was doing some work on regex.c just now, and I was frustrated
> that the code is unnecessarily complicated by the ifdefs necessary
> to support some theoretical non-Emacs use case. Is all of this
> complexity really necessary? Are we sure the !emacs case even
> compiles? Are there non-Emacs users of the Emacs regex code? Can we
> just fork the implementation? How about baking in switches like
> MATCH_MAY_ALLOCATE?
The emacs regex code is hardly state of the art. I would suggest that
there are many other, better, free software implementations of
regexes.
Indeed, arguably at some point the Emacs regex code could use an
overhaul.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-16 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-16 15:35 regex.c simplification Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:11 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 16:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 18:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-16 19:27 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-17 16:50 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-18 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-17 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20 0:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-20 0:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20 1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-20 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 21:49 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-21 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-21 7:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01 0:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01 2:38 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-20 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:43 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 16:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-16 16:35 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-16 16:42 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:24 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:58 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-18 9:36 ` Robert Pluim
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