From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2009-10-18T21:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: matching against a zillion patterns

* Lars Christensen <larschbelunktumdk@gmail.com> (2009-10-15) schrieb:

> Your mega-pattern will be quite slow if many strings doesn't match any
> pattern, and even slower if many strings matches some patterns
> partially, since the regexp engine would end up backtracking a lot.

Why would it do try to backtrack here?

mfg,                     simon .... l