Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:43:21 +1100
From: Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
To: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch status update
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On 06-Feb-2005, Tom Lord wrote:
> There are (at most) three regexp engines in the free software world
> with anywhere near enough performance to work for `inventory'.  Of
> those, only 1 is in a free version of libc (and, of the three, with
> considerable respect for its author, i must note that it is the one I
> think most likely to have performance problems for uses within arch
> but outside of `inventory' itself).
>=20
> In other words, the decision to use the system regex is pragmatically
> equivalent to the decision to rely on GNU libc.

Is your objection based on libc's regex engine, or on other aspects of
libc?

If the dependency was on a separate-from-libc version of GNU's regex
library, would that be satisfactory?

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>

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