Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> writes: >> The reason we ignore the user's choice here is because you might >> e.g. set grep.patternType=extended in your config, and you'd still want >> grepping for a fixed "foo" to be fast. > > ...and more generally, for any future sanity of implementation and > maintenance I think we should only make the promise that we support > certain syntax & semantics, not that the -F, -G, -E, -P options are > guaranteed to dispatch to a given codepath. > > Internally we should be free to switch between those, so e.g. if a > pattern is fixed and you configure "basic" regexp, but we know your C > library is faster for those matches with REG_EXTENDED we should just > pass that regardless of -G or -E.
That certainly is a very sensible goal. > I'm just saying that the presence of those bugs means we should be > inclined to fix them / back out certain changes, not work around them > with user-servicable knobs. Amen.
