2009/6/16 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > > The system regex is either slow or buggy for complex > patterns, like the built-in xfuncname pattern for java > files. Also required on AIX (5.3). I thought this was a major performance regression somewhere else, but my 'old stable' version dates from a time when we were briefly using compat/regex on this platform before we reverted that change and switched over to extended regexes. With the above: 3m33.399s Without: ... manually aborted after 58m ! git 1.6.0.2.229.g1293c 3m21.645s Could you squash + NO_REGEX = YesPlease in ifeq ($(uname_S),AIX) please? Shout if follow-up patch preferred. Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Mike PS Pound to a penny INTERNAL_QSORT would be a win on Solaris too... -- 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