regex status report #5

[Gabor Kovesdan]

Hi,

this week I sent an early test patch to current@ to evaluate whether the 
performance and the POSIX-compliance are satisfying. Of course, I did my 
own tests but it's important to let the public check it. Let's see if I 
got some response.

Apart from this, I progressed with the optimization. Now I see more 
clearly how I can integrate my ideas into TRE. As a first step, I 
grabbed BSD grep's optimization but it was very specific to grep so I 
made it very general to handle hopefully all the necessary cases. I also 
adopted it to TRE's convention so that I have a better chance to get it 
accepted upstream. For now, I was just thinking and coding but made no 
tests and that's why I haven't checked this code in because I want to 
keep my branch stable. It will happen soon, though.

In general, I'm a bit behind the schedule at the moment but I think now 
I'm on the good track at least with this part.

Gabor