Re: [Grep-devel] regex and __glibc_unlikely

[arnold]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
> > 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.

Do you have benchmarks you've used in the past? Or anything that I can
try with gawk?  I can run existing tests; I don't have the cycles to
create tests.

I will correspond with you (Paul) some more about this off list, later.

Thanks,

Arnold