I have just made available the tarballs for the Release Candidate
8.20-RC1:
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Testing/pcre-8.20-RC1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Testing/pcre-8.20-RC1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Testing/pcre-8.20-RC1.zip
This is an important new release, because it contains Zoltan Herczeg's
just-in-time compiler support. This can give substantial performance
gains for patterns that are matched many times (which includes
non-anchored searches on long strings). It is available only on certain
common hardware platforms (ARM, Intel, MIPS, PPC). JIT support handles
most patterns and most common options, though it does not support
partial matching. When an unsupported pattern or option is used, there
is automatic fallback to the normal pcre_exec() code.
Build pcre with --enable-jit, and run "man pcrejit" for details of how
to use this support.
Please test this Release Candidate as much as you can.
Thanks,
Philip
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Philip Hazel
