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| author | Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> | 2012-11-10 02:15:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> | 2012-11-10 02:18:42 +0100 |
| commit | b06f7a29a58bbdd5866afc1e92dba3fdc9e2ed59 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ff33e9a336525ed4861c50f13f2e694d4e8ca39 /NEWS | |
| parent | cbf738c8d0b148b7d5e43ebb19dd683891cbefac (diff) | |
| download | grep-b06f7a29a58bbdd5866afc1e92dba3fdc9e2ed59.tar.gz | |
pcre: add PCRE-JIT support for grep
* NEWS: Document new feature.
* src/pcresearch.c [PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE] (jit_stack): New.
[PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE] (Pcompile): JIT-compile the regular expression
and allocate a stack for it. Based on a patch from Zoltan Herczeg.
* THANKS: Add Zoltan to the list.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- to match multibyte characters against some regular expressions, especially those including the '.' or '\p' metacharacters. +** New features + + grep -P can now use a just-in-time compiler to greatly speed up matches, + This feature is transparent to the user; no flag is required to enable + it. It is only available if the corresponding support in the PCRE + library is detected when grep is compiled. + * Noteworthy changes in release 2.14 (2012-08-20) [stable] |