Re: git diff looping?

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:47:26AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

  $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/egit.git
  $ git diff v0.4.0 -- \
    org.spearce.egit.core.test/src/org/spearce/egit/core/op/T0001_ConnectProviderOperationTest.java

which isn't even all that big a file, but it is either causing some
horrible algorithmic behavior in the regex library, or is outright
sending it into an infinite loop.

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.

And here is a patch series to use compat/regex on Solaris. I think the
first one should be non-controversial, as it just makes the knob more
convenient to turn. The second one is up for debate.

  1/2: Makefile: refactor regex compat support
  2/2: Makefile: use compat regex on Solaris

-Peff