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<title>Merge branch 'bw/repo-object'</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T20:32:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
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<published>2017-07-05T20:32:55+00:00</published>
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Introduce a "repository" object to eventually make it easier to
work in multiple repositories (the primary focus is to work with
the superproject and its submodules) in a single process.

* bw/repo-object:
  ls-files: use repository object
  repository: enable initialization of submodules
  submodule: convert is_submodule_initialized to work on a repository
  submodule: add repo_read_gitmodules
  submodule-config: store the_submodule_cache in the_repository
  repository: add index_state to struct repo
  config: read config from a repository object
  path: add repo_worktree_path and strbuf_repo_worktree_path
  path: add repo_git_path and strbuf_repo_git_path
  path: worktree_git_path() should not use file relocation
  path: convert do_git_path to take a 'struct repository'
  path: convert strbuf_git_common_path to take a 'struct repository'
  path: always pass in commondir to update_common_dir
  path: create path.h
  environment: store worktree in the_repository
  environment: place key repository state in the_repository
  repository: introduce the repository object
  environment: remove namespace_len variable
  setup: add comment indicating a hack
  setup: don't perform lazy initialization of repository state
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Introduce a "repository" object to eventually make it easier to
work in multiple repositories (the primary focus is to work with
the superproject and its submodules) in a single process.

* bw/repo-object:
  ls-files: use repository object
  repository: enable initialization of submodules
  submodule: convert is_submodule_initialized to work on a repository
  submodule: add repo_read_gitmodules
  submodule-config: store the_submodule_cache in the_repository
  repository: add index_state to struct repo
  config: read config from a repository object
  path: add repo_worktree_path and strbuf_repo_worktree_path
  path: add repo_git_path and strbuf_repo_git_path
  path: worktree_git_path() should not use file relocation
  path: convert do_git_path to take a 'struct repository'
  path: convert strbuf_git_common_path to take a 'struct repository'
  path: always pass in commondir to update_common_dir
  path: create path.h
  environment: store worktree in the_repository
  environment: place key repository state in the_repository
  repository: introduce the repository object
  environment: remove namespace_len variable
  setup: add comment indicating a hack
  setup: don't perform lazy initialization of repository state
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<entry>
<title>repository: introduce the repository object</title>
<updated>2017-06-24T01:24:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brandon Williams</name>
<email>bmwill@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T18:43:32+00:00</published>
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Introduce the repository object 'struct repository' which can be used to
hold all state pertaining to a git repository.

Some of the benefits of object-ifying a repository are:

  1. Make the code base more readable and easier to reason about.

  2. Allow for working on multiple repositories, specifically
     submodules, within the same process.  Currently the process for
     working on a submodule involves setting up an argv_array of options
     for a particular command and then launching a child process to
     execute the command in the context of the submodule.  This is
     clunky and can require lots of little hacks in order to ensure
     correctness.  Ideally it would be nice to simply pass a repository
     and an options struct to a command.

  3. Eliminating reliance on global state will make it easier to
     enable the use of threading to improve performance.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Introduce the repository object 'struct repository' which can be used to
hold all state pertaining to a git repository.

Some of the benefits of object-ifying a repository are:

  1. Make the code base more readable and easier to reason about.

  2. Allow for working on multiple repositories, specifically
     submodules, within the same process.  Currently the process for
     working on a submodule involves setting up an argv_array of options
     for a particular command and then launching a child process to
     execute the command in the context of the submodule.  This is
     clunky and can require lots of little hacks in order to ensure
     correctness.  Ideally it would be nice to simply pass a repository
     and an options struct to a command.

  3. Eliminating reliance on global state will make it easier to
     enable the use of threading to improve performance.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams &lt;bmwill@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'nd/fopen-errors'</title>
<updated>2017-06-22T21:15:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T21:15:20+00:00</published>
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Hotfix for a topic that is already in 'master'.

* nd/fopen-errors:
  configure.ac: loosen FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES test program
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Hotfix for a topic that is already in 'master'.

* nd/fopen-errors:
  configure.ac: loosen FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES test program
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ab/pcre-v2'</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T19:38:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T19:38:43+00:00</published>
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Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.

* ab/pcre-v2:
  grep: add support for PCRE v2
  grep: un-break building with PCRE &gt;= 8.32 without --enable-jit
  grep: un-break building with PCRE &lt; 8.20
  grep: un-break building with PCRE &lt; 8.32
  grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
  log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
  grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
  grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
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Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.

* ab/pcre-v2:
  grep: add support for PCRE v2
  grep: un-break building with PCRE &gt;= 8.32 without --enable-jit
  grep: un-break building with PCRE &lt; 8.20
  grep: un-break building with PCRE &lt; 8.32
  grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
  log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
  grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
  grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
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<entry>
<title>configure.ac: loosen FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES test program</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T21:14:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-14T05:30:18+00:00</published>
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We added an FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES Makefile knob long ago
in cba22528f (Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on
attempt to open directory, 2008-02-08) to handle systems
where reading from a directory returned garbage. This works
by catching the problem at the fopen() stage and returning
NULL.

More recently, we found that there is a class of systems
(including Linux) where fopen() succeeds but fread() fails.
Since the solution is the same (having fopen return NULL),
they use the same Makefile knob as of e2d90fd1c
(config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Linux and
FreeBSD, 2017-05-03).

This works fine except for one thing: the autoconf test in
configure.ac to set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES actually checks
whether fread succeeds. Which means that on Linux systems,
the knob isn't set (and we even override the config.mak.uname
default). t1308 catches the failure.

We can fix this by tweaking the autoconf test to cover both
cases. In theory we might care about the distinction between
the traditional "fread reads directories" case and the new
"fopen opens directories". But since our solution catches
the problem at the fopen stage either way, we don't actually
need to know the difference. The "fopen" case is a superset.

This does mean the FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES name is slightly
misleading. Probably FOPEN_OPENS_DIRECTORIES would be more
accurate. But it would be disruptive to simply change the
name (people's existing build configs would fail), and it's
not worth the complexity of handling both. Let's just add a
comment in the knob description.

Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm &lt;sunny@sunbase.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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We added an FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES Makefile knob long ago
in cba22528f (Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on
attempt to open directory, 2008-02-08) to handle systems
where reading from a directory returned garbage. This works
by catching the problem at the fopen() stage and returning
NULL.

More recently, we found that there is a class of systems
(including Linux) where fopen() succeeds but fread() fails.
Since the solution is the same (having fopen return NULL),
they use the same Makefile knob as of e2d90fd1c
(config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Linux and
FreeBSD, 2017-05-03).

This works fine except for one thing: the autoconf test in
configure.ac to set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES actually checks
whether fread succeeds. Which means that on Linux systems,
the knob isn't set (and we even override the config.mak.uname
default). t1308 catches the failure.

We can fix this by tweaking the autoconf test to cover both
cases. In theory we might care about the distinction between
the traditional "fread reads directories" case and the new
"fopen opens directories". But since our solution catches
the problem at the fopen stage either way, we don't actually
need to know the difference. The "fopen" case is a superset.

This does mean the FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES name is slightly
misleading. Probably FOPEN_OPENS_DIRECTORIES would be more
accurate. But it would be disruptive to simply change the
name (people's existing build configs would fail), and it's
not worth the complexity of handling both. Let's just add a
comment in the knob description.

Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm &lt;sunny@sunbase.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'js/blame-lib'</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T00:18:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-05T00:18:11+00:00</published>
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The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it
easier to use by cgit.

* js/blame-lib: (29 commits)
  blame: move entry prepend to libgit
  blame: move scoreboard setup to libgit
  blame: move scoreboard-related methods to libgit
  blame: move fake-commit-related methods to libgit
  blame: move origin-related methods to libgit
  blame: move core structures to header
  blame: create entry prepend function
  blame: create scoreboard setup function
  blame: create scoreboard init function
  blame: rework methods that determine 'final' commit
  blame: wrap blame_sort and compare_blame_final
  blame: move progress updates to a scoreboard callback
  blame: make sanity_check use a callback in scoreboard
  blame: move no_whole_file_rename flag to scoreboard
  blame: move xdl_opts flags to scoreboard
  blame: move show_root flag to scoreboard
  blame: move reverse flag to scoreboard
  blame: move contents_from to scoreboard
  blame: move copy/move thresholds to scoreboard
  blame: move stat counters to scoreboard
  ...
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The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it
easier to use by cgit.

* js/blame-lib: (29 commits)
  blame: move entry prepend to libgit
  blame: move scoreboard setup to libgit
  blame: move scoreboard-related methods to libgit
  blame: move fake-commit-related methods to libgit
  blame: move origin-related methods to libgit
  blame: move core structures to header
  blame: create entry prepend function
  blame: create scoreboard setup function
  blame: create scoreboard init function
  blame: rework methods that determine 'final' commit
  blame: wrap blame_sort and compare_blame_final
  blame: move progress updates to a scoreboard callback
  blame: make sanity_check use a callback in scoreboard
  blame: move no_whole_file_rename flag to scoreboard
  blame: move xdl_opts flags to scoreboard
  blame: move show_root flag to scoreboard
  blame: move reverse flag to scoreboard
  blame: move contents_from to scoreboard
  blame: move copy/move thresholds to scoreboard
  blame: move stat counters to scoreboard
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ab/sha1dc-maint'</title>
<updated>2017-06-04T00:55:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-04T00:55:41+00:00</published>
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The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13
was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that
do not like unaligned fetches.  Update to the upstream code which
has already fixed these issues.

* ab/sha1dc-maint:
  sha1dc: update from upstream
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The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13
was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that
do not like unaligned fetches.  Update to the upstream code which
has already fixed these issues.

* ab/sha1dc-maint:
  sha1dc: update from upstream
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup'</title>
<updated>2017-06-02T06:06:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-02T06:06:05+00:00</published>
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The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.

* ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup: (31 commits)
  grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}
  grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warn
  pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threads
  pack-objects &amp; index-pack: add test for --threads warning
  test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisite
  grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declaration
  grep: change internal *pcre* variable &amp; function names to be *pcre1*
  grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1
  grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a function
  grep: remove redundant regflags assignments
  grep: catch a missing enum in switch statement
  perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines with -F
  perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines
  perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines with -F
  perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines
  perf: emit progress output when unpacking &amp; building
  perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't do
  grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patterns
  grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharacters
  grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
  ...
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The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.

* ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup: (31 commits)
  grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}
  grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warn
  pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threads
  pack-objects &amp; index-pack: add test for --threads warning
  test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisite
  grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declaration
  grep: change internal *pcre* variable &amp; function names to be *pcre1*
  grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1
  grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a function
  grep: remove redundant regflags assignments
  grep: catch a missing enum in switch statement
  perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines with -F
  perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines
  perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines with -F
  perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines
  perf: emit progress output when unpacking &amp; building
  perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't do
  grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patterns
  grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharacters
  grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>grep: add support for PCRE v2</title>
<updated>2017-06-01T23:29:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-01T18:20:56+00:00</published>
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Add support for v2 of the PCRE API. This is a new major version of
PCRE that came out in early 2015[1].

The regular expression syntax is the same, but while the API is
similar, pretty much every function is either renamed or takes
different arguments. Thus using it via entirely new functions makes
sense, as opposed to trying to e.g. have one compile_pcre_pattern()
that would call either PCRE v1 or v2 functions.

Git can now be compiled with either USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease or
USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease, with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease currently being a
synonym for the former. Providing both is a compile-time error.

With earlier patches to enable JIT for PCRE v1 the performance of the
release versions of both libraries is almost exactly the same, with
PCRE v2 being around 1% slower.

However after I reported this to the pcre-dev mailing list[2] I got a
lot of help with the API use from Zoltán Herczeg, he subsequently
optimized some of the JIT functionality in v2 of the library.

Running the p7820-grep-engines.sh performance test against the latest
Subversion trunk of both, with both them and git compiled as -O3, and
the test run against linux.git, gives the following results. Just the
/perl/ tests shown:

    $ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=30 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND='grep -q LIBPCRE2 Makefile &amp;&amp; make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst/lib || make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre/inst/lib' ./run HEAD~5 HEAD~ HEAD p7820-grep-engines.sh
    [...]
    Test                                            HEAD~5            HEAD~                    HEAD
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    7820.3: perl grep 'how.to'                      0.31(1.10+0.48)   0.21(0.35+0.56) -32.3%   0.21(0.34+0.55) -32.3%
    7820.7: perl grep '^how to'                     0.56(2.70+0.40)   0.24(0.64+0.52) -57.1%   0.20(0.28+0.60) -64.3%
    7820.11: perl grep '[how] to'                   0.56(2.66+0.38)   0.29(0.95+0.45) -48.2%   0.23(0.45+0.54) -58.9%
    7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare'       1.02(5.77+0.42)   0.31(1.02+0.54) -69.6%   0.23(0.50+0.54) -77.5%
    7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te'          0.38(1.57+0.42)   0.27(0.85+0.46) -28.9%   0.21(0.33+0.57) -44.7%

See commit ("perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines",
2017-04-19) for details on the machine the above test run was executed
on.

Here HEAD~2 is git with PCRE v1 without JIT, HEAD~ is PCRE v1 with
JIT, and HEAD is PCRE v2 (also with JIT). See previous commits of mine
mentioning p7820-grep-engines.sh for more details on the test setup.

For ease of readability, a different run just of HEAD~ (PCRE v1 with
JIT v.s. PCRE v2), again with just the /perl/ tests shown:

    [...]
    Test                                            HEAD~             HEAD
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    7820.3: perl grep 'how.to'                      0.21(0.42+0.52)   0.21(0.31+0.58) +0.0%
    7820.7: perl grep '^how to'                     0.25(0.65+0.50)   0.20(0.31+0.57) -20.0%
    7820.11: perl grep '[how] to'                   0.30(0.90+0.50)   0.23(0.46+0.53) -23.3%
    7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare'       0.30(1.19+0.38)   0.23(0.51+0.51) -23.3%
    7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te'          0.27(0.84+0.48)   0.21(0.34+0.57) -22.2%

I.e. the two are either neck-to-neck, but PCRE v2 usually pulls ahead,
when it does it's around 20% faster.

A brief note on thread safety: As noted in pcre2api(3) &amp; pcre2jit(3)
the compiled pattern can be shared between threads, but not some of
the JIT context, however the grep threading support does all pattern &amp;
JIT compilation in separate threads, so this code doesn't need to
concern itself with thread safety.

See commit 63e7e9d8b6 ("git-grep: Learn PCRE", 2011-05-09) for the
initial addition of PCRE v1. This change follows some of the same
patterns it did (and which were discussed on list at the time),
e.g. mocking up types with typedef instead of ifdef-ing them out when
USE_LIBPCRE2 isn't defined. This adds some trivial memory use to the
program, but makes the code look nicer.

1. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html
2. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20170419.172322.833ee099.en.html

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Add support for v2 of the PCRE API. This is a new major version of
PCRE that came out in early 2015[1].

The regular expression syntax is the same, but while the API is
similar, pretty much every function is either renamed or takes
different arguments. Thus using it via entirely new functions makes
sense, as opposed to trying to e.g. have one compile_pcre_pattern()
that would call either PCRE v1 or v2 functions.

Git can now be compiled with either USE_LIBPCRE1=YesPlease or
USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease, with USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease currently being a
synonym for the former. Providing both is a compile-time error.

With earlier patches to enable JIT for PCRE v1 the performance of the
release versions of both libraries is almost exactly the same, with
PCRE v2 being around 1% slower.

However after I reported this to the pcre-dev mailing list[2] I got a
lot of help with the API use from Zoltán Herczeg, he subsequently
optimized some of the JIT functionality in v2 of the library.

Running the p7820-grep-engines.sh performance test against the latest
Subversion trunk of both, with both them and git compiled as -O3, and
the test run against linux.git, gives the following results. Just the
/perl/ tests shown:

    $ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=30 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND='grep -q LIBPCRE2 Makefile &amp;&amp; make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre2/inst/lib || make -j8 USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease CC=~/perl5/installed/bin/gcc NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=YesPlease CFLAGS=-O3 LIBPCREDIR=/home/avar/g/pcre/inst LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/home/avar/g/pcre/inst/lib' ./run HEAD~5 HEAD~ HEAD p7820-grep-engines.sh
    [...]
    Test                                            HEAD~5            HEAD~                    HEAD
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    7820.3: perl grep 'how.to'                      0.31(1.10+0.48)   0.21(0.35+0.56) -32.3%   0.21(0.34+0.55) -32.3%
    7820.7: perl grep '^how to'                     0.56(2.70+0.40)   0.24(0.64+0.52) -57.1%   0.20(0.28+0.60) -64.3%
    7820.11: perl grep '[how] to'                   0.56(2.66+0.38)   0.29(0.95+0.45) -48.2%   0.23(0.45+0.54) -58.9%
    7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare'       1.02(5.77+0.42)   0.31(1.02+0.54) -69.6%   0.23(0.50+0.54) -77.5%
    7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te'          0.38(1.57+0.42)   0.27(0.85+0.46) -28.9%   0.21(0.33+0.57) -44.7%

See commit ("perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines",
2017-04-19) for details on the machine the above test run was executed
on.

Here HEAD~2 is git with PCRE v1 without JIT, HEAD~ is PCRE v1 with
JIT, and HEAD is PCRE v2 (also with JIT). See previous commits of mine
mentioning p7820-grep-engines.sh for more details on the test setup.

For ease of readability, a different run just of HEAD~ (PCRE v1 with
JIT v.s. PCRE v2), again with just the /perl/ tests shown:

    [...]
    Test                                            HEAD~             HEAD
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    7820.3: perl grep 'how.to'                      0.21(0.42+0.52)   0.21(0.31+0.58) +0.0%
    7820.7: perl grep '^how to'                     0.25(0.65+0.50)   0.20(0.31+0.57) -20.0%
    7820.11: perl grep '[how] to'                   0.30(0.90+0.50)   0.23(0.46+0.53) -23.3%
    7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare'       0.30(1.19+0.38)   0.23(0.51+0.51) -23.3%
    7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te'          0.27(0.84+0.48)   0.21(0.34+0.57) -22.2%

I.e. the two are either neck-to-neck, but PCRE v2 usually pulls ahead,
when it does it's around 20% faster.

A brief note on thread safety: As noted in pcre2api(3) &amp; pcre2jit(3)
the compiled pattern can be shared between threads, but not some of
the JIT context, however the grep threading support does all pattern &amp;
JIT compilation in separate threads, so this code doesn't need to
concern itself with thread safety.

See commit 63e7e9d8b6 ("git-grep: Learn PCRE", 2011-05-09) for the
initial addition of PCRE v1. This change follows some of the same
patterns it did (and which were discussed on list at the time),
e.g. mocking up types with typedef instead of ifdef-ing them out when
USE_LIBPCRE2 isn't defined. This adds some trivial memory use to the
program, but makes the code look nicer.

1. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html
2. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20170419.172322.833ee099.en.html

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>grep: un-break building with PCRE &gt;= 8.32 without --enable-jit</title>
<updated>2017-06-01T23:29:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-01T18:20:55+00:00</published>
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Amend my change earlier in this series ("grep: add support for the
PCRE v1 JIT API", 2017-04-11) to un-break the build on PCRE v1
versions later than 8.31 compiled without --enable-jit.

As explained in that change and a later compatibility change in this
series ("grep: un-break building with PCRE &lt; 8.32", 2017-05-10) the
pcre_jit_exec() function is a faster path to execute the JIT.

Unfortunately there's no compatibility stub for that function compiled
into the library if pcre_config(PCRE_CONFIG_JIT, &amp;ret) would return 0,
and no macro that can be used to check for it, so the only portable
option to support builds without --enable-jit is via a new
NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT=UnfortunatelyYes Makefile option[1].

Another option would be to make the JIT opt-in via
USE_LIBPCRE1_JIT=YesPlease, after all it's not a default option of
PCRE v1.

I think it makes more sense to make it opt-out since even though it's
not a default option, most packagers of PCRE seem to turn it on by
default, with the notable exception of the MinGW package.

Make the MinGW platform work by default by changing the build defaults
to turn on NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT=UnfortunatelyYes. It is the only platform
that turns on USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease by default, see commit
df5218b4c3 ("config.mak.uname: support MSys2", 2016-01-13) for that
change.

1. "How do I support pcre1 JIT on all
   versions?"  (https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20170601.103148.10253788.en.html)

2. https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-pcre/PKGBUILD
   (referenced from "Re: PCRE v2 compile error, was Re: What's cooking
   in git.git (May 2017, #01; Mon, 1)";
   &lt;alpine.DEB.2.20.1705021756530.3480@virtualbox&gt;)

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Amend my change earlier in this series ("grep: add support for the
PCRE v1 JIT API", 2017-04-11) to un-break the build on PCRE v1
versions later than 8.31 compiled without --enable-jit.

As explained in that change and a later compatibility change in this
series ("grep: un-break building with PCRE &lt; 8.32", 2017-05-10) the
pcre_jit_exec() function is a faster path to execute the JIT.

Unfortunately there's no compatibility stub for that function compiled
into the library if pcre_config(PCRE_CONFIG_JIT, &amp;ret) would return 0,
and no macro that can be used to check for it, so the only portable
option to support builds without --enable-jit is via a new
NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT=UnfortunatelyYes Makefile option[1].

Another option would be to make the JIT opt-in via
USE_LIBPCRE1_JIT=YesPlease, after all it's not a default option of
PCRE v1.

I think it makes more sense to make it opt-out since even though it's
not a default option, most packagers of PCRE seem to turn it on by
default, with the notable exception of the MinGW package.

Make the MinGW platform work by default by changing the build defaults
to turn on NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT=UnfortunatelyYes. It is the only platform
that turns on USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease by default, see commit
df5218b4c3 ("config.mak.uname: support MSys2", 2016-01-13) for that
change.

1. "How do I support pcre1 JIT on all
   versions?"  (https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20170601.103148.10253788.en.html)

2. https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-pcre/PKGBUILD
   (referenced from "Re: PCRE v2 compile error, was Re: What's cooking
   in git.git (May 2017, #01; Mon, 1)";
   &lt;alpine.DEB.2.20.1705021756530.3480@virtualbox&gt;)

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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