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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 09:05:22 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Hyperscan regex 42x the performance of pcre
On 2019-02-07 12:08, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 06:04, Jason Ellison <infotek@...il.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Is John sitting a long time in pcre? I mean if you are spending 80
> seconds making hashes and 1 second to regex and you cut it down to 0.1
> second.. does it help any?
JtR doesn't have or use regexes at all, except when built with
(currently experimental) regex-library but in that case all regex logic
is in that external lib.
Hyperscan sounds interesting though. Nothing stops us (well except
manpower) from re-implementing regex mode with that instead.
magnum
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