PCRE with JIT support

huan · Oct 10, 2013

Release 8.20 21-Oct-2011

The main change in this release is the inclusion of Zoltan Herczeg's just-in-time compiler support, which can be accessed by building PCRE with --enable-jit. Large performance benefits can be had in many situations. 8.20 also fixes an unfortunate bug that was introduced in 8.13 as well as tidying up a number of infelicities and differences from Perl.

So I propose to add it to custombuild script and replace:

Code:

./configure --enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties

with

Code:

./configure --enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties --enable-jit

This is specially useful when using mod_security2 because compiling it with PCRE JIT (–enable-pcre-jit flag) speeds it up dramatically - especially with many rulesets.

PCRE with JIT support

huan

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