Varnish regular expression evaluated at compile time.

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Hugues Alary

> I don't know if it's gonna be the solution I'll adopt, but at this very
> moment I only have that or coding a vmod. However I don't think that coding
> a vmod is a solution as I would just implement something (regular
> expression evaluation at run time) that phk says being too expensive.

Yes, compiling it is expensive, but if you can afford it or not is
obviously going to depend on the amount of CPU you have and your request
rates.

We currently don't support doing runtime compilation of regexes (as you
discovered), so a vmod would be a way to go for now.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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