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Port to PCRE2 API and enable JIT compilation #27

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  1. Port to PCRE2 API and enable JIT compilation 

    The original PCRE API provided on most systems by libpcre3 is no longer
maintained upstream and is superseded by the new PCRE2 API, which was
first released in 2015. pcre3 will be removed from Debian in 2023, as
noted in this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/1000080

This commit replaces the existing PCRE implementation with a new one
using PCRE2, which is quite similar. One benefit is that PCRE2 provides
a JIT compiler which can replace the interpretive regular expression
evaluation code with native machine code on most modern platforms:
https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2jit.html

Depending on the length and complexity of the pattern used, enabling JIT
compilation makes Ngrep 50x to 150x faster, testing in quiet mode on a
multi-gigabyte PCAP file stored on tmpfs.
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    rfrancoise committed Nov 20, 2021
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