From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T04:03:41+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression question

ts wrote:

> pigeon% time ruby -e '"bbbbXcXaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" =~ /.X(.+)+X/; p $&'
> "bXcX"
> 
> real    0m0.019s
> user    0m0.010s
> sys     0m0.010s
> pigeon%

Is this in 1.7? With 1.6.7 I'm seeing exponential growth depending on
the number of a's.