Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 07:34:13AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 08:04:44 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > [...] quite possibly Perl's engine has been refined (it definitely has
> > been extended) since then.

[...]

> It still has the issue.
> 
> hobbit:~$ time perl -e '$s = "a" x 25; $r = "a?" x 25 . "a" x 25; if ($s =~ $r) { print "yes\n"; }'
> yes
> real 1.354  user 1.349  sys 0.004
> 
> That's with perl 5.36.0 from Bookworm.

Thanks for checking :-)

I have some emotional attachment to that runaway: it helped,
long, long ago a friend of mine and me land an exciting new
job and get to know a bunch of very good friends :-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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