[pcre-dev] [Bug 1554] support subject strings with invalid U…

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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1554] support subject strings with invalid UTF-8 sequences
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1554

Zoltan Herczeg <hzmester@???> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Zoltan Herczeg <hzmester@???> ---
Is this issue still valid? Did you find any solution (e.g. converting all
invalid bytes to \0)?

On the fly validation of UTF characters is costly, especially for a
backtracking engine, where the same character may be validated several times.
This would slow down the interpreter too much. However, PCRE2-JIT could be
extended with invalid UTF parsing. This feature would be enabled by a flag, so
extra cost for others who don't need this feature would only be negligible
compile time overhead.

But the validation itself is still costly, especially if we need to do it for
the same character several times. Therefore "fixing" the input before calling
pcre2_match would still be faster.

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