Re: [xml] Regular Expression Problem

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:05:29PM +0100, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> >   Hum, unfortunately this looks like a different problem, it seems
> > to take a lot of cycles and I'm afraid there is something serious going
> > on and that can be only studied and fixed by debugging the generated
> > automata.
> >   reducing the expression and the input to provide a minimal automata
> > showing the problem is a good first step.
>
> Place the following two lines in a file, and run testRegexp on it:
>
> =>((a[0-9]+|b[0-9]+)c)
> b12345678901234567890123

  thanks a lot of an even simpler test case, allowed me to nail it down
while in the train yesterday,

> If you add more digits to the second line, it will slow down even
> further at what looks like an exponential rate.

  yes, a serious problem when building regexp automata, I chased it yesterday
in the train, found and fixed it. I'm just surprized it didn't break way
more things, commited in revision 3705. I suggest rerunning your regression
tests if possible as this is really a core change, i think it's safe, but
need to be heavilly tested,

Daniel

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