bug#13369: 24.1; compile message parsing slow because of omake hack

[Jambunathan K]

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@bredband.net> writes:

> I actually wrote a simple regexp-to-rx translator, like rx in reverse,
> just to be able to make sense of the ones in compile.el. I'd be happy
> to share.

Why not just share, instead of saying that you will be happy to do so.

I personally find rx easy to edit and use.  I am also drifting away from
Emacs lisp regexp to rx.

ps: Someone shared a perl(?)-to-Emacs regexes a couple of months ago and
wanted to include it as part of GNU ELPA.
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