Bug 16187

Summary: MatchStack should allocate frames in chunks and only free them in ~MatchStack
Product: WebKit Reporter: Eric Seidel (no email) <eric>
Component: JavaScriptCoreAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: Normal CC: barraclough
Priority: P2    
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 16186    

Eric Seidel (no email)
Reported 2007-11-29 04:17:49 PST
MatchStack should allocate frames in chunks and only free them in ~MatchStack Currently MatchStack will allocate a new frame each time you recurse once you've gone past FRAMES_ON_STACK frames. Instead, MatchStack should allocate frames in chunks (to avoid individual mallocs) and hold onto those chunks until ~MatchStack() is called. This would be a win for any regexp which uses more than FRAMES_ON_STACK frames in more than one place in the regexp.
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Gavin Barraclough
Comment 1 2011-09-06 22:33:20 PDT
This is a proposed optimization for PCRE; we no longer use PCRE.
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