Author: Zoltán Herczeg Date: To: Giuseppe D'Angelo CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] A native pcre exec for JIT
> But out of curiosity, how come that pcre_exec can't just do what this > function is supposed to do when it has a JIT-compiled pattern, UTF
> checks are not requested, etc.?
The point of the new API is not inventing something which was not possible before. Instead, it increases the performance of the most common case of performance hungry applications in release mode (by eliminating debug checks and some function calls).
