From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: John Bito <jwbito@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git diff looping?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:07:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090616120737.GA5227@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090616114726.GA4343@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:47:26AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/egit.git
> $ git diff v0.4.0 -- \
> org.spearce.egit.core.test/src/org/spearce/egit/core/op/T0001_ConnectProviderOperationTest.java
>
> which isn't even all that big a file, but it is either causing some
> horrible algorithmic behavior in the regex library, or is outright
> sending it into an infinite loop.
>
> I tried building against the code in compat/regex; it completes in a
> reasonable amount of time, though it is still noticeably slow. With
> system regex, the diff given above doesn't complete in less than 90
> seconds (at which I get bored and kill it). With compat/regex, it
> completes in about 2.2 seconds. Disabling the xfuncname, it completes in
> 0.14 seconds.
And here is a patch series to use compat/regex on Solaris. I think the
first one should be non-controversial, as it just makes the knob more
convenient to turn. The second one is up for debate.
1/2: Makefile: refactor regex compat support
2/2: Makefile: use compat regex on Solaris
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-16 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-16 1:37 git diff looping? John Bito
2009-06-16 2:44 ` Jeff Epler
2009-06-16 2:53 ` John Bito
2009-06-16 11:47 ` Jeff King
2009-06-16 12:07 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-06-16 12:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: refactor regex compat support Jeff King
2009-06-16 18:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-06-16 19:05 ` Jeff King
2009-06-16 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2009-06-16 19:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Makefile: use compat regex on Solaris Jeff King
2009-06-16 20:07 ` Brandon Casey
2009-06-17 13:15 ` Mike Ralphson
2009-06-17 13:55 ` Mike Ralphson
2009-06-16 12:14 ` [PATCH " Jeff King
2009-06-16 15:48 ` git diff looping? John Bito
2009-06-16 16:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-16 17:15 ` Jeff King
2009-06-16 17:35 ` Brandon Casey
2009-06-16 17:39 ` John Bito
2009-06-16 17:41 ` Jeff King
2009-06-16 20:22 ` Brandon Casey
2009-06-17 8:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-17 10:23 ` Jeff King
2009-06-17 11:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-17 11:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-17 13:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-17 13:16 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-17 13:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-17 14:26 ` [PATCH] avoid exponential regex match for java and objc function names Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-17 15:46 ` demerphq
2009-06-17 15:56 ` Jeff King
2009-06-17 16:00 ` demerphq
2009-06-17 16:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-17 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-18 6:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-16 17:16 ` git diff looping? John Bito
2009-06-16 17:24 ` Jeff King
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