Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

To be clear the point of my mail was not to say "I can't think of a
way to support both of these things, help!", obviously we can continue
to maintain two codepaths. The point was to raise the idea that we
could simply remove the more complex & doomed to forever be slow
codepath.

To be clear, the point of my response was that these features must
remain.  As long as they are more convenient than sifting through
output produced by pattern matching engine that is less powerful
(which forces the user to give wider pattern than desired, to avoid
false negatives) with eyeball, having to match each pattern one by
one, instead of being able to use a combined and more efficient
single pattern, is still more efficient for the end user, which is
the point of using a computer.