Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: stop using a custom JIT stack with PCRE v1

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 6:50 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 26 2019, Carlo Arenas wrote:
>>
>> > since this moves PCRE1 out of the JIT fast path,
>>
>> I think you're mostly replying to the wrong thread. None of the patches
>> I've sent disable PCRE v1 JIT, as the performance numbers show. The JIT
>> stack is resized, and for v2 some dead code removed.
>
> I didn't mean JIT was disabled, but that we are calling now the regular
> PCRE1 function which does UTF-8 validation (unlike the one used before)
>
>> > introduces the regression where git grep will abort if there is binary
>> > data or non UTF-8 text in the repository/log and should be IMHO hold
>> > out until a fix for that can be merged.
>>
>> You're talking about the kwset series, not this cleanup series.
>
> a combination of both (as seen in pu) and that will also happen in next if
> this series get merged there.
>
> before this cleanup series, a git compiled against PCRE1 and not using
> NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT will use the jit fast path function and therefore would
> have no problems with binary or non UTF-8 content in the repository, but
> will regress after.