Jens Elkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:07:41PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > Don't most 3rd party software apps use a version of either GNU regex or
> > perl regex?
>
> AFAIK they usually use the system's regex, since usually faster.
> I think, one year ago, I also checked out pcre without getting something
> better... :(
You always mention the term "faster", did you ever try to verify
the implementations for _correctlness_?
I remember a similar discussion years ago in comp.unix.solaris
where people claimed that GNU sort was faster than Solaris sort.
It turned out that GNU sort did not sopport anything than LC_ALL=C.
After Paul Eggert did enhance GNU sort to behave correctly, it was
much slower than Solaris sort and Paul did ask Sun to make it OSS.
Jörg
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