diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f6d019e18..ff9acdbf6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4778,9 +4778,9 @@ checksum = "accd4ea62f7bb7a82fe23066fb0957d48ef677f6eeb8215f372f52e48bb32426"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorscan-rs"
-version = "0.0.4"
+version = "0.0.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "06868c1e9994efb8427457f188412c5e0e3ca65db41ad6d038bc2e9cc15a2076"
+checksum = "08996b325141e4f10b5a7a52593490af2eea87e47f8bc1e8800b6d6e0dfb7050"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
  "foreign-types 0.5.0",
@@ -4791,9 +4791,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorscan-rs-sys"
-version = "0.0.4"
+version = "0.0.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "38526b2bac42a703411a1784062a86a2b076e959a5c4e1c004212f56407064d1"
+checksum = "473f4b86c4c9e42140712b9790079bca554f6341c8ce19f0f1a3ad3b9509dbd5"
 dependencies = [
  "cmake",
  "flate2",
diff --git a/crates/noseyparker-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/noseyparker-cli/Cargo.toml
index f598190a5..35680a4f2 100644
--- a/crates/noseyparker-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/noseyparker-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-log = "0.2"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["tracing-log", "ansi", "env-filter", "smallvec", "fmt"], default-features = false }
 url = "2.3"
-vectorscan-rs = { version = "0.0.4" }
+vectorscan-rs = { version = "0.0.5" }
 object-pool = "0.6.0"
 parquet = { version = "53.2.0", optional = true }
 arrow-schema = { version = "53.2.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/noseyparker-cli/src/cmd_rules/cmd_rules_check.rs b/crates/noseyparker-cli/src/cmd_rules/cmd_rules_check.rs
index c55c49666..15668effd 100644
--- a/crates/noseyparker-cli/src/cmd_rules/cmd_rules_check.rs
+++ b/crates/noseyparker-cli/src/cmd_rules/cmd_rules_check.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use anyhow::{bail, Context, Result};
 use regex::Regex;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
-use tracing::{error, error_span, info, warn};
+use tracing::{debug, error, error_span, info, warn};
 use vectorscan_rs::{BlockDatabase, Flag, Pattern, Scan};
 
 use noseyparker::rules_database::RulesDatabase;
@@ -269,12 +269,15 @@ fn check_rule(rule: &Rule, args: &RulesCheckArgs) -> Result<CheckStats> {
         }
     };
 
-    match hs_compile_pattern(&syntax.uncommented_pattern()) {
+    let uncommented_pattern = syntax.uncommented_pattern();
+    match hs_compile_pattern(&uncommented_pattern) {
         Err(e) => {
             error!("Vectorscan: failed to compile pattern: {e}");
             num_errors += 1;
         }
         Ok(db) => {
+            debug!("{} regex bytes -> {} vectorscan bytes", uncommented_pattern.len(), db.size()?);
+
             let mut scanner = vectorscan_rs::BlockScanner::new(&db)?;
 
             let mut num_succeeded = 0;
diff --git a/crates/noseyparker/Cargo.toml b/crates/noseyparker/Cargo.toml
index 505259100..a7640087f 100644
--- a/crates/noseyparker/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/noseyparker/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ thiserror = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1.23", optional = true }
 tracing = "0.1"
 url = "2.3"
-vectorscan-rs = { version = "0.0.4" }
+vectorscan-rs = { version = "0.0.5" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 pretty_assertions = "1.3"