[cmake-developers] slow regex implementation in RegularExpression

[Bill Hoffman]

On 11/16/2011 4:11 PM, Sean McBride wrote:

>
> The downside is that this solution would be fragile. xcodebuild's
output is not guaranteed to be the same forever, it's not like a public
API. Already today, gcc and clang output pretty differently. I'm a
little worried this would bite us.
>
> Besides, improving regex performance would be a win everywhere, not
just in this case.



Still, we are already filtering the output some, and it is way too 
verbose which is why it is the only place where this is a problem.  It 
might be worth exploring as a faster path to getting things working for you.

-Bill