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		maccard on Aug 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go So it's doable if you know the solution and have seen it before, but otherwise it's pretty damn difficult

samatman on Aug 12, 2022 [–]

The issue here is the pathological performance under crafted inputs, I don't believe GP was saying it's easy to write or uninteresting history.

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