> We're upgraded to the latest PCRE now (thanks for Cliff to fixing the 
> Win32 build).

Thanks.

> 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.

Yeah, do that, but surround it with comments saying that it is a change
that has been submitted to the maintainer.

>   * 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.)

Ummm, do we always use our PCRE for the regexec library?  I was under the
impression that it is configurable.

....Roy

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