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chr15m 3 hours ago

If a regex runs too long just kill it and show the user an error.

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maleldil 2 hours ago | parent [-]

How often have you encountered code that adds a timeout to regex matching?

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chr15m 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Good point. The number of times is zero. Probably something that should be implemented defensively at the library level. I guess most developers don't realise this can happen (I did not).

	▲	inigyou an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No you don't actually want a regex library that randomly fails when someone runs one of Chris Domas's pathological stall instructions on a different core.