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
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