Real-life PCRE vs Regexp benchmarking

If we intend this to be a permanent solution, the fact that PCRE probably doesn't handle wide strings is a problem.

If we intend it as just temporary speedup, we should be wary about allowing a wider set of regexp syntax, since we would have to allow the same set when a permanent solution is fixed in order to have backwards compatibility.

Other than that I can't think of any problems. After all, the API is pretty simlistic as it is.

/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)

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2003-01-29 17:10: Subject: Real-life PCRE vs Regexp benchmarking

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Excellent! Now, what are the problems if we simply replaced the current regexp engine with PCRE? What problems do we face in the Pike API?

/ Martin Nilsson (Åskblod)