Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Preventing matches in regular expressions

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

    > We were going to use [the cut operator] to optimize inventory
    > operations by combining all the regexes into one.  But it turned
    > out that libhackerlab needed to be fixed, because the cut
    > operator was disabling important regex optimizations.

Did I leave you with the wrong impression, re that?

The fix there is on the order of one line of code.

It's just that it's a fix in a critical and complex part of
libhackerlab so somebody needs to spend 3 days doing it very
carefully.

It's like the difference between changing "a lightbulb" 
and changing "The Lightbulb".   Equally trivial, but not to be done on
a whim or while distracted.

-t