Is that means we couldn't use multi-threading applications to match different compiled forms at once? I mean each thread use its own compiled form which is different from others.
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:19:39 +0000
> From: ph10@???
> To: wrk@???
> CC: pcre-dev@???
> Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] question about thread
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, 吴仁科 wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear PCRE developers:
> > These days i used Pcre for multiple threads designing.I created 4 threads in a 4 nuclear CPU to match Regular
> > Expression , but it couldn't raise the peed when i just created one thread.Could PCRE be used in several threads at the same time?
> > Thank you .
>
> This text is an extract from the "man pcreapi":
>
> MULTITHREADING
>
> The PCRE functions can be used in multi-threading applications, with
> the proviso that the memory management functions pointed to by
> pcre_malloc, pcre_free, pcre_stack_malloc, and pcre_stack_free, and the
> callout function pointed to by pcre_callout, are shared by all threads.
>
> The compiled form of a regular expression is not altered during match-
> ing, so the same compiled pattern can safely be used by several threads
> at once.
>
>
> --
> Philip Hazel
