From: Peter Schrammel <peter.schrammel@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T06:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression too big

> When you post an question like this, it is always a good idea to
reveal the
> purpose as well as the method.
> 
>

First of all: Thanks for the replies, I think I have enough input to
chew on.

And to reveal the purpose:
I'd like to match a LOT of words/strings (words with spaces) and
sometimes regexes against a lot of small and medium size( < 10000 byte )
strings.

The comparison with Perl was just a comparison of the regexp engines and
not the language itself. It was just that until now I had never to think
much about the underlying hardware .... because ruby did that for me. So
I was surprised by the "too big exception".

Peter