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| author | Robin Haberkorn <rhaberkorn@fmsbw.de> | 2026-06-28 00:39:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Robin Haberkorn <rhaberkorn@fmsbw.de> | 2026-06-28 00:39:51 +0200 |
| commit | 4fe5bc6f3867096965270c90f2e1e5df77b8825f (patch) | |
| tree | 07823673c598cf4289ea0ae769c32924e1fcce10 /src/Makefile.am | |
| parent | c5cb45fab6d4a63a4fcff2cf7f6801dae2ac4db2 (diff) | |
terex is the new regular expression engine now and replaces PCRE (GRegex)
* terex is based on Henry Spencer's regular expression engine for Tcl.
It is a hybrid NFA/DFA design which has better worst-time runtimes than
the backtracking PCRE. Memory usage is also limited and can no longer
increase catastrophically.
* It should no longer be possible to crash SciTECO with pathological
searches.
* Since it reliably supports partial matches (REG_EXPECT) we can
now enable the new backwards-search algorithm by default.
This used to be broken because of a glib bug, which I already
fixed. It would however take a long time until this ends up
on the majority of glib installations.
* Regexp executions can still be quite slow if you are looking
for a pattern at the end of a huge file, which can hang the editor,
but this can now at least theoretically be solved by adding
hooks into terex to poll for interruptions.
* We can now also get rid of a TECO-pattern to regexp translation
step by directly generating terex tokens (TODO).
* Performance-wise terex appears to be slower than PCRE for simple
forward searches even when linking everything with optimzations (FIXME).
* Having a stand-alone regular expression engine is also a huge
step in getting rid of glib.
See also: https://git.fmsbw.de/terex/about/
Diffstat (limited to 'src/Makefile.am')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/Makefile.am | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am index ff2e86b..8ac58c7 100644 --- a/src/Makefile.am +++ b/src/Makefile.am @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/contrib/scintilla.am # FIXME: Common flags should be in configure.ac AM_CFLAGS = -std=gnu11 -Wall -Wno-initializer-overrides -Wno-unused-value -AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(top_srcdir)/contrib/rb3ptr +AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(top_srcdir)/contrib/rb3ptr -I$(top_srcdir)/contrib/terex AM_LDFLAGS = if STATIC_EXECUTABLES @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ libsciteco_base_la_SOURCES = main.c sciteco.h list.h \ # NOTE: We cannot link in Scintilla (static library) into # a libtool convenience library libsciteco_base_la_LIBADD = $(LIBSCITECO_INTERFACE) \ - $(top_builddir)/contrib/rb3ptr/librb3ptr.la + $(top_builddir)/contrib/rb3ptr/librb3ptr.la \ + $(top_builddir)/contrib/terex/libterex.la if REPLACE_MALLOC libsciteco_base_la_LIBADD += $(top_builddir)/contrib/dlmalloc/libdlmalloc.la endif |