Maybe some other PCRE-compatible implementation offers streaming. For instance, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/introductio

Maybe some other PCRE-compatible implementation offers streaming. For instance, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/introduction-to-hyperscan.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... says it has this feature, but of course given who it's from it may be tied to a single brand of CPU. github seems to be https://github.com/intel/hyperscan https://github.com/intel/hyperscan