On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > Aharon Robbins wrote: >> >> Can you explain a bit more what the two different branches do? > > Sorry, not easily; I'm not familiar with the code. I assume it has something > to do with locales where there's not a one-to-one correspondence between > lower-case and upper-case letters.
Hi Paul, A week or so, Norihiro Tanaka posted the patch in bug 16421, which removes GREP-oriented dfa.c code in favor of what gawk has been using, as well as ensuring that some of grep's case-insensitive searches no longer have to case-convert the data being searched. I was expecting to apply it, along with another small change and a test, but now, feel like I'll have to justify it with some performance data as well. Assuming I find an improvement, expect a complete patch in a day or two.
