john-users - Hyperscan regex 42x the performance of pcre

Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 16:33:10 -0600
From: Jason Ellison <infotek@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Hyperscan regex 42x the performance of pcre

List,

  After reading performance comparisons of various regex engines... hscan
performs 42 times faster than pcre.  I'm curious as to possible performance
benefits of including Hyperscan into john.

https://rust-leipzig.github.io/regex/2017/03/28/comparison-of-regex-engines/

https://www.hyperscan.io/
https://github.com/intel/hyperscan

Regards,

Jason Ellison

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