Today, Carlo Arenas pointed out[1] that GNU grep didn't work around 
PCRE2 bug 2642, which Git grep has a workaround for. While installing a 
GNU grep patch to fix this[2] I noticed that Git's workaround appears to 
be too pessimistic: on older PCRE2 libraries Git grep sets 
PCRE2_NO_START_OPTIMIZE even when PCRE2_CASELESS is not set.

Attached is a patch to Git that I just now cobbled up and have not even 
compiled, much less tested. Please feel free to ignore it, as it would 
merely improve performance on older, buggy PCRE2 libraries and that 
might not be worth your trouble. I'm sending this email as more of a 
thank-you for letting us know indirectly of the PCRE2 bug.

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/r/grep-devel/2022-03/msg00004.html
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/r/grep-devel/2022-03/msg00005.html