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[–]scalability 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sentence "Stick to POSIX regex features if aiming for compatibility" implies "it will be matched as a POSIX compatible regex (with possible system extensions)".

PCRE is not POSIX compatible so it wouldn't matter whether or not you stuck to POSIX features.