Subject: Re: bug#55744: infinite loop

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:15:06 -0400

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  > That's a regexp with a lot of backtracking, I think (i.e., elements that
  > can be matched both by the ?'s as well as the two *'s).  So matching
  > this will be slow, which results in the hangs you're seeing when Emacs
  > is trying to match that to the text in the buffer.

Would it make sense to say more about this point in the Emacs Lisp Manual
where it describes regexps?

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