Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped...

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi again,

>     $ for n in 1 10 100 1000 10000; do
>     >     \time -f %M uip/scan -forma _ last:$n >/dev/null
>     > done
>     2728
>     3152
>     4520
>     21712
>     150576
>     $

It could be `compbuffers' guarded by

    /* first-time only initialization, which will always happen the
       way the code is now, with callers initializing *scanl to NULL.
       scanl used to be a global. */
    if (! *scanl) {

If so, it's been there a few years.

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