bug#18454: Improve performance when -P (PCRE) is used in UTF-8 locales

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> I worked on this some more, and came up with the attached patches proposed
> against the current grep Savannah master (commit
> 9ea9254ea58456b84ed2f0c1481ca91cdd325bf7).
>
> For years I've been wanting to write that last patch and I finally got
> around to it.  It improves grep -P's performance by a factor of 1.2 trillion
> on one (admittedly artificial) benchmark.  I hope its 1 ZB/s scan rate is
> some kind of record.  The last patch probably won't help your test cases,
> though I hope the other patches do help somewhat.

Awesome :-)  I found time to look through all but the 5th.
Slightly surprised that 4/6 makes a measurable performance
difference (didn't check), but moving away from file-scoped
is an improvement in any case.