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Slow pattern matching #4

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kikito opened this issue Oct 17, 2013 · 0 comments

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kikito commented Oct 17, 2013

How to detect and disallow slow pattern matching?

("a"):rep(100):match(patt)

where patt might be:

'a+a+b': too low to measure
'a+a+a+b': 0.08 seconds
'a+a+a+a+b': 1.3 seconds
'a+a+a+a+a+b': 20.3 seconds

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