re.search much slower then grep on some regular expressions

[Mark Wooding]

Sebastian "lunar" Wiesner <basti.wiesner at gmx.net> wrote:

> # perl -e '("a" x 100000) =~ /^(ab?)*$/;'
> zsh: segmentation fault  perl -e '("a" x 100000) =~ /^(ab?)*$/;'

(Did you really run that as root?)

> It'd be interesting to know, how CL-PPCRE performs here (I don't know this
> library).

Stack overflow condition. :-(

-- [mdw]