Re: master 544db1e: Faster grep pattern for identifiers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> branch: master
> commit 544db1ee8679eec9edd5cee81a340ee1c4d70158
> Author: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> 
>     Faster grep pattern for identifiers
>     
>     * lisp/cedet/semantic/symref/grep.el (semantic-symref-perform-search):
>     Use the `-w` flag instead of wrapping the pattern in regexps that make
>     matching much slower.  This speeds up `xref-find-references` by about
>     3× on macOS.

Doesn't this change the semantics of the "word"?  The Grep notion of
the word is not necessarily identical to that of Emacs, since the
latter depends on the major mode.  The comment in the deleted code
says that much, AFAICT.  Or what am I missing?