Dave Mitchell <davem (AT) iabyn (DOT) comwrote:
:The change below removes the success part of the super-linear cache code
:in the regex engine. None of the tests in the test suite ever triggered
:it, and I'm unable to think of an example that could. If I'm wrong,
:some of you may find one or more of your regexes suddenly taking
:universe-heat-death time to execute. if so, let me know!
:
:I've talked this over with Hugo, and I've half-convinced him that this is
:correct :-)
At least 90% convinced.
Do you plan to expose also the iteration counter we talked about? That
would make it possible to introduce some optimisation tests, at least
under a debugging build.
Hugo