bug#43862: [PATCH] grep: set RE_NO_SUB for calling regex only to check syntax

[Norihiro Tanaka]

We can set RE_NO_SUB for calling regex only to check syntax.  It brings
performance gains in cases to have a lot of enormous epsilon nodes.


$ printf '(%020000d)\n' | sed 's/0/|/g' >pat

(before)
$ time -p env LC_ALL=C src/grep -Ef pat /dev/null
real 6.15
user 4.62
sys 1.52

(after)
$ time -p env LC_ALL=C src/grep -Ef pat /dev/null
real 0.66
user 0.19
sys 0.46

0001-grep-set-RE_NO_SUB-for-calling-regex-only-to-check-s.patch
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