[patch] syntax:plain for .hgignore

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 12:52 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> However, there's something that might help without rebuilding Python.
> Turns out that Python (and Perl) don't actually optimize expressions
> like foobar|foobaz|fooquux into foo(bar|baz|quux).

This implies that they are using a backtracking implementation, which
has negative performance implications.

Is the python RE library written in python, or is it a native code
library?
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