On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:45:37PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> How hard is it to "knobble" a perl5 to disable the regular expression
> optimiser?
Should be trivial. S_study_chunk(), regcomp.c:676.
> And then later perl5 be allowed its optimiser back once parrot has one.
Did you mean 'one',
A thought occurred to me a few days ago:
If I remember correctly, attempts to benchmark parrot's developing regular
expressions against perl's regular expressions are proving "disappointing".
However, perl5 has the advantage of a regular expression optimiser as I
understand it, or at least code t
