Re: [gnugo-devel] Removal of DFA_ENABLE #ifdefs

[Daniel Bump]

Tanguy wrote:

> Hi,
> My opinion is that DFA should become be a default feature
> as well as incremental liberty count became.
> The DFA speedup is at the cost of a more complex algorithm
> but it allow an intensive use of pattern matching.
> I think that anyone who read the documentation is able to 
> understand how it works.
> 
> Maintain a supersonic plane is harder than
> maintain a bicycle.
> Depends where you want to go :)

I'm not necessarily opposed to switching to making the DFA
default before 3.2. But at the moment the conservative
policy is to support them both. This means test building
both with and without the DFA regularly and running the
regressions to make sure it doesn't get broke again. 

I think we should rename global_matchpat() back to
matchpat(). Currently there's no function with that
name anywhere in the code.

Dan