On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 07:34:13AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 08:04:44 +0200, [email protected] 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
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