Controversial opinion time: The advantages of Thompson NFA regexes are just theoretical and not worth it. PCRE is faster in the real world.
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I'm curious - any change of opinion after cloudflare went down due to a pathological regex?
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Is this old tweet going around suddenly? I readily admit that
@burntsushi5 showed I was wrong about performance. Note that I was coming from experience with SpiderMonkey’s regexes, where speed of regex *compilation* dominates pretty much all else.
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