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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Most regex engines supported by Pomsky use backtracking. This means that Pomsky is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. This should be detected and issue a warning (unless Rust is targeted, which does not backtrack).
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Most regex engines supported by Pomsky use backtracking. This means that Pomsky is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. This should be detected and issue a warning (unless Rust is targeted, which does not backtrack).
Describe the solution you'd like
The regular-expressions.info page about catastrophic backtracking recommends:
But is this sufficient? A real-word example where backtracking crippled a CloudFlare service was the regex
Which can be simplified and summarized like this:
There is no nested repetition, yet it is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking.
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