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Re: Perl5 regexen: exponential backtracking behavior when mixing \n and \s
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:37:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Christopher Lindsey writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > 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:
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> [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)
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> [...]
> 17 0.00
> 18 0.00
> 19 0.00
> 20 0.00
> 21 0.00
> 22 0.00
Awesome. Was that Perl 5.6? So it's smart enough to compile \n\s into a
DFA instead of an NDFA? Wow.
--Todd
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