Why would you ever allow that regex?

> On Jun 11, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Andy Balholm <andybalh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It’s apparently quadratic in some cases. Yesterday fuzzing on 
> github.com/andybalholm/cascadia found an input that triggered a timeout. The 
> time was being spent compiling a 180-KB regex (which I’m attaching to this 
> message). If I concatenate two copies of this file, the combined regex takes 
> at least four times as long to compile.
> 
> I plan to investigate further, and see if I can find a way to reproduce the 
> issue that doesn’t look like it was generated by a fuzzer.
> 
> Andy
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> <regex.txt>
> 
> 
>> On Jun 9, 2020, at 8:42 AM, 'Thomas Bushnell, BSG' via golang-nuts 
>> <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:23 AM Axel Wagner <axel.wagner...@googlemail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you actually read OPs second E-Mail, they did and they didn't find it 
>>> very clear. With that in mind, your message isn't very nice.
>>> (Also, not to be repetitive or anything: ~80% of the messages in this 
>>> thread aren't actually concerned with what the complexity class *is*, but  
>>> whether it matters)
>> 
>> The OP stopped participating in this exciting thread a long time ago. I went 
>> and read through the code, and it seems pretty clear to me that it's linear. 
>> 
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