Author: ph10 Date: To: ND CC: Pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Influence of some start-up optimizations at the
beginning of the pattern
On Wed, 29 May 2019, ND via Pcre-dev wrote:
> Since anybody put MARK verb at the beginning of pattern then it is assumed
> that this verb is definitely needed in pattern logic.
But maybe only for successful matches?
> So is there any reason to apply to such patterns optimizations that can
> discard that MARK?
> May be automatically disabling of such optimizations is reasonable.
The discarding happens only for "no match" results. If you are
interested only in matches, the optimizations are fine.