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  Perl5 regexen: exponential backtracking behavior when mixing \n and \s
 
Anyone out there running Perl 5.6 or higher? Try running this little test proggy that compares the approximate CPU execution times of two regexen: ---...---begin---...--- #!/bin/perl use strict; $^W = 1; sub cputime { my ($user, $sys, $cuser, $csys) (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl5 regexen: exponential backtracking behavior when mixing \n and \s
 
(...) [lindsey@wolrab ~]$ uname -a Linux wolrab 2.2.16-22smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:39:21 EDT 2000 i686 unknown [lindsey@wolrab ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness) s/(?:\n[ \t]*)+$// 0 0.00 1 0.00 2 0.00 3 0.00 4 0.00 5 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl5 regexen: exponential backtracking behavior when mixing \n and \s
 
(...) Awesome. Was that Perl 5.6? So it's smart enough to compile \n\s into a DFA instead of an NDFA? Wow. --Todd (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl5 regexen: exponential backtracking behavior when mixing \n and \s
 
(...) yah, that's what I got as well: greywolf$ perl -v This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i686-linux guess 5.6 kicks bootie :) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl5 regexen: exponential backtracking behavior when mixing \n and \s
 
(...) Yup! lindsey@wolrab|/afs/...dsey|[65]> /usr/bin/perl -v This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-linux Chris (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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