Re: git diff looping?

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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?

> 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.

In this particular case it is clear that a good way to fix the problem is
to replace Solaris's dumb regex implemention with what comes in compat/,
but I at the same time have to wonder if that funcname pattern for java
can somehow be simplified, so that it does not to require so sophisticated
implementation of regexp?