From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T09:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow regular expressions :(


Gene Tani wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> > Also note that Perl must have optimized for this sort of backtracking after
> > 5.005_03, because it hangs as well.  I'd be curious as to their reasons for
> > doing this, but I have my suspicions.
> >
>
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-05/msg00585.html
>
> http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=502408

(give credt where credit due)  this blog pointed to Ilya Z explanation

http://cwilliams.textdriven.com/articles/2005/11/21/ruby-can-learn-from-perl