On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:35:57PM +0100, j. v. d. hoff wrote: > this would not prevent, > that people run into the exponential run time problem when using the > "naive" pattern instead the anchored one, but this could be > explained by a FAQ entry making > the problem practically irrelevant. or do I still miss the relevant point?
The very existence of "naive patterns" is the point. It is kind of a FAQ with the canonical answer being http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html. Joerg _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
