Re: Progressively slow pattern match

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2006-05-17) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> (looking-at "\\(%+\\)*foo")
[...]
>> Is this a deficiency in Emacs?  Is there a way matching can be sped up
>> with this or maybe another, equivalent regexp?
>
> Uh, "\\(%+\\)?foo" maybe?

The original regexp looks something like
"\\(%+[ \t]*\\)*foo"
in order to match stuff like
%% %% %% foo

-- 
Ralf