On Tue, 28 May 2024 18:27:04 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlah...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/jdk.internal.md/share/classes/jdk/internal/markdown/MarkdownTransformer.java
>> line 858:
>>
>>> 856: for (char c : ref.toCharArray()) {
>>> 857: if (Escaping.ESCAPABLE.indexOf(c) >= 0) {
>>> 858: pattern.append("\\\\?");
>>
>> suggestion, dunno how critical is this code but regex usually are a tax on
>> performance, I would consider not using them
>
> Sorry for the belated answer. Yes, regexps are usually not very performant,
> but it is only happening when the exact match fails. And, hopefully, the
> regexp should not be too difficult to handle. I was considering writing the
> search by hand, and I can, but it seems like a lot of code to handle a case
> like this. I can write the search manually, though.
ok if you think they won't be a problem in this case, I'm fine with it, we can
always refactor the code if needed
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19387#discussion_r1617772235
