diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f226aa133b4..addc4f66bcd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
     Doleček)
   . Fixed bug #81380 (Observer may not be initialized properly). (krakjoe)
 
+- PCRE:
+  . Unfixed bug #81424 (PCRE2 10.35 JIT performance regression). (cmb)
+
 - Standard:
   . Fixed bug #81491 (Incorrectly using libsodium for argon2 hashing).
     (Dan Pock)
diff --git a/ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_jit_compile.c b/ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_jit_compile.c
index e8b5bb35bc9..9e52e93c677 100644
--- a/ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_jit_compile.c
+++ b/ext/pcre/pcre2lib/pcre2_jit_compile.c
@@ -11228,7 +11228,7 @@ early_fail_type = (early_fail_ptr & 0x7);
 early_fail_ptr >>= 3;
 
 /* During recursion, these optimizations are disabled. */
-if (common->early_fail_start_ptr == 0 && common->fast_forward_bc_ptr == NULL)
+if (common->early_fail_start_ptr == 0)
   {
   early_fail_ptr = 0;
   early_fail_type = type_skip;