From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-09-26T02:21:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5109] Re: regexp and performance

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5101] regexp and performance"
    on 00/09/25, DaVinci <bombadil@wanadoo.es> writes:

|	Hi everybody.
|	I have probed example occur.rb with a big file and Ruby 1.6.
|	I notice a performance decrease vs. 1.4.x
|
|	Do you have noticed this? am I wrong?... What can be the reason?.

That's because regexp internal stack is now allocated in the heap to
avoid stack overflow for complex regexp patterns.  But I will hack it
to use machine's real stack if regexp stack is small enough.

							matz.