I believe the issue is that Solaris implements 'extended' regular expressions only in regcomp/regexec. The implementation of regcmp/regex seems to be from SysV and supports only 'basic' regular expressions. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Brandon Casey<casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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