bug#16966: [PATCH] grep: optimization with the superset of DFA

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 01/04/2014 17:49, Norihiro Tanaka ha scritto:
> > > I'm worried that the "STAR" method will match basically everything.
> If no normal char and/or CSET is included in the pattern, the superset
> won't be used.

Yeah, but my problem is that a.b will look at a very long line if it is 
translated to a[\x0-\xff]*b.  Better translate it to a[\x0-\xff]{1,2}b 
or something similar.

Paolo