Le 31/05/2013 16:01, Chris Rees a écrit : > Hi all, > > I think I've discovered a strange behaviour of sed perhaps triggered > by the length of a regex passed to it. I noticed that a certain > expression I passed took a very long time, and suspected the usual > backtracking loop, so I started trimming it... and discovered this: > > [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/por,," > /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 > 4.699u 0.007s 0:04.70 99.7% 40+2733k 0+0io 0pf+0w > [crees@pegasus]~% time sed -ne "s,^BitchX-[0-9][^|]*[\|]/usr/po,," > /var/db/pkg/INDEX-9 > 0.042u 0.000s 0:00.04 100.0% 48+3216k 0+0io 0pf+0w > > I've looked at the code, and can't from a brief glance figure out why > a slightly longer regex makes such a difference-- does it start to > split it? > > Chris
Uhu, maybe a bug that should be reported ?
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