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Author brezniczky
Recipients brezniczky, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2021-07-21.15:21:57
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I don't know if it's normal, but it's impractical.
I seem to have come by an expression consuming o(c^n) CPU cycles with c around 2.

Regex:
\*([^*]+)*\*

Resulted in times (in seconds) of 

0.17   (* is there anybody out?)
0.34 1
0.69 12
1.36 123
2.73  1234
5.44  12345
11.1  123456  (* is there anybody123456 out?)


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