Out of interest, why wouldn't you like it replacing Perl's built-in engine?

As far as I know (although I haven't benchmarked), Perl's regex engine is faster. If it's not, PCRE may as well replace Perl's own regex engine, when UTF8 is fixed :) Then we'd have Perl with a Regex Engine that is Perl Compatible, which sounds reasonable...

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