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http://davidvgalbraith.com/how-i-fixed-atom/ http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-j... https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html

The difference isn't academical. It has huge practical implications, from software that is just annoyingly slow to DoS attacks.

People need to understand that. And stop using non-regular regexes (or better yet: regex in general) in production code. It increases world-suck.




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