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Author jpakkane
Recipients ezio.melotti, jpakkane, mrabarnett
Date 2017-04-23.19:26:02
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Attached is a script that runs a single regex against one line of text taking over 12 seconds.

If you run the exact same regex in Perl it finishes immediately.

The slowness has something to do with spaces. If you replace consecutive spaces in the input with one, the evaluation is immediate.

This bug was originally discovered here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781569
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2017-04-23 19:26:02jpakkanesetrecipients: + jpakkane, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
2017-04-23 19:26:02jpakkanesetmessageid: <1492975562.82.0.745519478527.issue30148@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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