Subj : Re: Getting a new SM version
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed Dec 17 2003 11:13 am

Brendan Eich wrote:

> Second, in the case of 1.6b, I think you may want to consider the 
> patch-landing I did of rogerl's big jsregexp.c rewrite (bug 85721, 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85721).  That landing made 
> things faster, but it added a few bugs, and a few incompatibilities (per 

I should have said that the rewrite not only restored some performance 
lost from the ancient, perl4-like NFA version of the code that I 
originally wrote; it also fixed a bunch of bugs in the more perl5-ish 
support done for ECMA-262 Edition 3 that replaced my original version. 
So this big landing fixed bugs *and* sped things up relative to where 
they were before the landing.

/be

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