Re: Wanted: slow regexes

2010-12-12 Thread Alexander Gattin
Hello, On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:24:02PM +, MRAB wrote: > Interestingly, that webpage says that: > > ("a" x 10) =~ /^(ab?)*$/ > > caused Perl to segfault. I tried it and it didn't segfault, but it > didn't match either It doesn't segfault but produces a warning with -w: xr...@xrgtn-

Re: Wanted: slow regexes

2010-12-08 Thread MRAB
On 08/12/2010 12:42, Alexander Gattin wrote: Hello, On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:08:16AM +, MRAB wrote: I'm looking for examples of regexes which are slow (especially those which seem never to finish) but whose results are known. does it have anything to do with http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp

Re: Wanted: slow regexes

2010-12-08 Thread Alexander Gattin
Hello, On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:08:16AM +, MRAB wrote: > I'm looking for examples of regexes which are > slow (especially those which seem never to > finish) but whose results are known. does it have anything to do with http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html? -- With best regards, xrgt

Re: Wanted: slow regexes

2010-12-06 Thread Tim Chase
On 12/05/2010 10:08 PM, MRAB wrote: I'm looking for examples of regexes which are slow (especially those which seem never to finish) but whose results are known. I already have those reported in the bug tracker, but further ones will be welcome. This is for testing additional modifications to th

Wanted: slow regexes

2010-12-05 Thread MRAB
I'm looking for examples of regexes which are slow (especially those which seem never to finish) but whose results are known. I already have those reported in the bug tracker, but further ones will be welcome. This is for testing additional modifications to the new regex implementation (available