I think it's time for our PCRE to officially fork from the original version. Up until this point we've tried to keep it in a state where we can easily merge, but we haven't merged often and there aren't a lot of improvements in the newer versions that we want. If we remove the features we don't use at all we should be able to get some speed-up without even making any real changes.
Created attachment 17026 [details] patch (all regression tests pass)
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