Author: ph10 Date: To: Ze'ev Atlas CC: pcre-dev@exim.org Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1419] PCRE slower at matching UTF8character
classes.
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
> I know that this change make no difference in my port and I agree that
> such a massive change would require a new version number (despite the
> prior anticipation that 8.34 would be the last 8.xx version.)
I am hoping to get back to working on the new API proposal soon ...
there were a number of useful comments, but we got sidetracked into
thinking about performance improvements. I guess the new API project is
going to slide a bit more into the future than originally anticipated.
> However, I'd rather have my version bare the same number as the
> latest version. My port is not too popular, so I could skip a
> version, but do you think that there would be the customary 6 months
> between 8.34 and 8.35 in light of Zoltan's ideas or would 8.35 come
> pretty soon.
>
> I guess that this question is for both Philip and Zoltan.
I currently have only a small number of issues to deal with; we could
perhaps think about a new release in less than 6 months, but I know that
Zoltán has ideas about yet more performance improvements.
