regexec() performance problem

[Jan Fedak]

Hi guys.

I have serious performance problems with regexec(). I attach a short
program that will try to match a regular expression against ~130K text.
On my computer I never had enough patience to wait for it to complete. 

I know that in this particular case I could use simple strstr() and have
my job done in no time but still I wonder whether some profiling
wouldn't reveal ways to make glibc implementation of regular expressions
faster.

I didn't do much research, I just quickly looked at it in debugger and I
noticed that quite a lot of time is spent in functions for multibyte
characters -- just my idea where performance problems could come from...

Thanks for your work and any response.

Jan


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