On 28 July 2013 19:12, Zoltán Herczeg <[email protected]> wrote: > In short JIT only helps if you compile a pattern once, and use it several > times. It is inefficient for searching a pattern once in a small string like > checking a version string.
This is the same strategy I've implemented in Qt (in QRegularExpression) -- if a pattern gets used more than a dozen times, we try to JIT-optimize it. (...this reminds me that I should add an API for controlling that...) HTH, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
