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by dbaupp 4759 days ago
Newer versions of PCRE have a JIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Compatible_Regular_Express...
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V8, SpiderMonkey, and jsc also all have regular expression JITs.
SpiderMonkey uses JavaScriptCore's regular expression JIT, YARR (Yet Another RegExp Runtime).
I believe pypy also has a regex jit.
Yup we do.