Re: This Week on perl5-porters - (5-11 June 2006)

On 6/15/06, David Landgren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>    Yves also tidied up and shipped out a more current version of a
>    pluggable 5.10 regexp engine for 5.8.1.
>
>      Overhaul
>      http://xrl.us/nf3j

Unfortunately it turns out that core component of the regex engine
doesnt actually live in the regex engine and isnt pluggable currently.
Basically the threading code for handling duplicating a regex needs to
be pluggable along with the rest of the regex engine main calls, and
as the routine in question Perl_re_dup lives in sv.c and not regcomp.c
nobody ever noticed.

Anyway, Nicholas Clark outlined a "deeply evil" workaround, which as
one might expect when someone like Nicholas Clark says something like
this is a whole lot more evil than most people would be able to
handle, me included.

So a working implementation of this needs to wait until Nicholas can
find some round tuits to do his battle with evil personified.

Yves


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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"