Decompression is very fast and requires small work space.
Moreover, it is easy to decompress an arbitrary part of the original text. However, it has not been so popular since the compression is rather slow and the compression ratio is not as good as other methods such as Lempel-Ziv type compression. In this paper, we bring out a potential advantage of BPE compression. We show that it is very suitable from a practical view point of compressed pattern matching, where the goal is to find a pattern directly in compressed text without decompressing it explicitly. Especially, the latter was showed to be even faster than pattern matching in uncompressed texts.