On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:50:34 AM ext Sylvain Pointeau wrote: > > > > PCRE is a seperate library, not part of webkit. Webkit has a forked > > copy of PCRE that doesn't require the UTF16 -> UTF8 conversion (at > > least, according to > > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2005-June/000082.html), > > but that's not a standalone library, meaning someone would need to rip > > it out, and make sure they keep it in sync with the copy in webkit, > > etc. Or use the stock PCRE, and suffer the performance hit. > > > I understand now. > I read that the webkit team cannot upgrade their PCRE engine because of the > modifications...
Just to clarify this: WebKit does not use PCRE anymore (since at least 2 years IIRC). WebKit can either use JavaScriptCore and V8. Both of them come with their own regular expression engines that build on the respective JS infrastructure. Simon _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
