> I have just committed the latest version of Henry Spencer's regex
> package (lifted from Tcl 8.4.1) into CVS HEAD. This code is natively
> able to handle wide characters efficiently, and so it avoids the
> multibyte performance problems recently exhibited by Wade Klaver.
> I have not done extensive performance testing, but the new code seems
> at least as fast as the old, and much faster in some cases.
I have tested the new regex with src/test/mb and it all passed. So the
new code looks safe at least for EUC_CN, EUC_JP, EUC_KR, EUC_TW,
MULE_INTERNAL, UNICODE, though the test does not include all possible
regex patterns.
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Tatsuo Ishii
