On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:11:08AM -0800, Brian Pane wrote: > We're upgraded to the latest PCRE now (thanks for Cliff to fixing the > Win32 build). > > I checked with the PCRE maintainer and learned that the next release is > several months away. In the meantime, that leaves me with two options > for speeding up ap_regexec(): > > * Commit a change to the PCRE regexec() function (the same change > that I've submitted for the next release of PCRE) into the Apache > copy of PCRE for now. > > * Or change ap_regexec() to bypass regexec() and call the PCRE "native" > regexp exec function directly. (The PCRE regexec() is a thin wrapper > around pcre_exec(), so this shouldn't be difficult.) > > Anybody have a strong preference for one of those alternatives vs. the > other? > I like the latter.
I'd prefer option one, but not violently so. -- justin
