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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation on debugging regexp performance
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:10:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuxq8txq.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4bj9spt.fsf@gmail.com>


On 2016-01-21, at 10:39, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

> More generally, i highly recommend Jeffrey Friedl's book 
> "Mastering Regular Expressions". It's not Emacs-specific, but it 
> provides in-depth explanations of why certain regexen are time- 
> and/or space-hungry.

Also, this: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html .  (Btw, the author
criticizes Friedl very strongly at the end; I am not sure whether this
is deserved.  Still, a very good read it is.)

> Alexis.

Hth,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-21 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-21  5:29 Documentation on debugging regexp performance Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-21  6:36 ` Yuri Khan
2016-01-21  9:39   ` Alexis
2016-01-21 13:22     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-21 22:10     ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-01-22  7:02       ` Alexis
2016-01-22 14:32       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-21 11:42 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2016-01-21 16:38   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-21 15:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-21 16:37   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-21 17:16     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-23  6:12       ` Stefan Monnier

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