Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:51:24AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >>> I can reproduce the problem on Solaris 8 using git v1.6.3. It seems to >>> be caused by a horribly slow system regex implementation; it really >>> chokes on the regex we use to find the "funcname" line for java files. >> Hmm. Is running under LC_ALL=C LANG=C _with_ the slow system regex help? > > No, it remains extremely slow (it is possible that it _is_ faster, > though, but I never managed to run either case to completion; they are > both clearly orders of magnitude off of acceptable). I haven't tried setting LC_ALL, LANG, but this Solaris regex is MANY orders of magnitude slower. I've been running your example diff on the egit repository for 2 hours and it still hasn't finished. The compat/regex version finished in 3 seconds. Solaris 10 x86. -brandon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html