Hi, * avoid repeated regex compilations (regex for search string do not change while scanning the package database) * remove needless string duplication (regex function do not change target string nor free them) * code cleanup This patch improves search performance: bash-3.2$ time ./src/pacman/pacman.static.old -Ss "(database|web).*server" >/dev/null real 0m1.026s user 0m0.544s sys 0m0.208s bash-3.2$ time ./src/pacman/pacman.static -Ss "(database|web).*server" >/dev/null real 0m0.777s user 0m0.456s sys 0m0.128s bash-3.2$ Jürgen