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* David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> [2008-05-05 19:15]: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote: > > the regex engine was almost twice as fast before the > > bookkeeping was added to detect exponential-time blowups of > > bad patterns.) > > how about an /f for fast regex modifier that will leave the > bookkeeping out? No need. We have pluggable engines now. If you have a pattern that needs to be as fast as possible, plug in a faster engine for that one pattern. The effort it takes to do this is effective syntactic salt, too, whereas `/f` would get used the most by the very people who are likeliest to need the protection it removes. (I’ve seen more than a few bugs caused by people who thought `/o` was the go-faster flag. Good thing it’s close to unnecessary these days.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next