On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Btw, one feature I'd like to see in shortlog is the ability to use
> regexps for email address matching, ie something like
>
> 'torvalds@.*transmeta.com' => 'Linus Torvalds'
> ...
> 'alan@.*swansea.linux.org.uk' => 'Alan Cox'
> ...
> 'bcrl@redhat.com' => 'Benjamin LaHaise',
> 'bcrl@.*' => '?? Benjamin LaHaise',
> ..
>
> I don't know whether you can force perl to do something like this, but if
> somebody were to try...
I'd like to keep the hash for all those addresses that aren't wildcards
and that aren't regexps -- we have fast, that is O(1) to O(log n),
access to the hash (depending on Perl's implementation) and we have
worse than O(n) for regexp, where n is the count of address strings or
regexps.
Would you agree to a version that has a set of fixed addresses and a
separate list of regexps, tries the hash first and then a list of
regexps? That sounds like a) easy addition, b) good performance to me
(before implementing it). If so, I could add some code for that feature.
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