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

[Roland Mainz]

Peter Memishian wrote:
> 
>  > 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.

Yes... that's why the *.so thing isn't delivered... ;-(
... but it may still be nice to get some performance numbers...

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Bye,
Roland

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