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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by cutler on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:37PM (#23635514)
On the other hand PHP has a PCRE jit option which manages to beat even Perl's regex implementation.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by rurban on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:46AM (#23637293)
Yes but you can use that jit also with perl5. https://metacpan.org/pod/re::engine::PCRE2

It has even less backcompat problems than the native regex.

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