Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: 869 CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 869] Unreasonable recursion caused by two
nested groups
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
> If the speed penalty is under 20% you might consider recommending the PHP guys
> to use the heap instead of stack.
I think, when we did some simple tests, it was around 30%, but my memory
is not good these days.
... but how would using the heap help? There could still be an
"insufficient resources" error if the heap ran out. I must be missing
something...
