[ksh93-integration-discuss] [osol-code] extremly bad performance of Solaris regex

[Peter Memishian]

 > 1. Which locale do you use ?
 > 2. Starting with Solaris 11/B72 there is libast.so.1 which comes with an
 > own set of pattern matching functions. It may be nice to check how these
 > functions perform compared to the "normal" Solaris functions in libc.
 > Notes:
 > - You have to include the AST includes from /usr/include/ast/, e.g. you
 > have to do a -I/usr/include/ast/ before the normaö include search path
 > to "overlay" the libc functions (you can check this in your application
 > with "nm" - the libast symbol names have a |_ast|-prefix).
 > - You have to create a symlink from /usr/lib/libast.so to
 > /usr/lib/libast.so.1 before you can link with libast via -last

... and in case it's not obvious from the issues linking via -last, this
is not a public API as far as Solaris is concerned yet.

-- 
meem