Re: [pcre-dev] I'm adding PCRE v2 support to Git. It's a bit…

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Author: Zoltán Herczeg
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To: Matthew Vernon
CC: pcre-dev, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] I'm adding PCRE v2 support to Git. It's a bit slower than v1
Hi,

>JIT is enabled in Debian on pcre builds for some architectures (roughly,
>those where it's believed to work ;-) ). It was true in old-pcre (Debian
>calls this pcre3) at the point I took over looking after pcre for
>Debian, and so I made it so for pcre2 also.


This is great news indeed! The JIT compiler supports x86 32/64, ARM 32/64, PowerPC 32/64, MIPS 32/64, and Sparc 32. However I don't have hardware access for ARM 64, MIPS, and Sparc, so those only tested in qemu.

Regards,
Zoltan