Re: [Grep-devel] regex and __glibc_unlikely

[Paul Eggert]

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> Is there any chance (Paul?) of reevaluating, and hopefully removing!, all
> the __glibc_unlikely stuff from regex?

There's a chance, but it probably shouldn't happen until after the next glibc 
release since we're close to a freeze.

We'll need benchmarks to argue that the change won't affect performance 
significantly in glibc.