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When given a pathological input that will always fail, /\s+$/ seems to take
the longest way home. Example in the IRC excerpt, below.
>From the IRC discussion:
[14:11] <timotimo> m: use nqp; ((" " x 10000) ~ "end") ~~ / \s+$ /; say now
- INIT now
[14:11] <+camelia> rakudo-moar 68afa3: OUTPUT«10.1804368»
[14:11] <timotimo> ah. no. it's definitely the regex :)
[14:11] <harmil> nice test case, though!
[14:11] <harmil> I'll submit this. At least it will be useful as a note for
the future.
[14:11] <timotimo> our regex optimizer is dumb as bricks ;)
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