re.search much slower then grep on some regular expressions

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:44:22 +0200, Sebastian \"lunar\" Wiesner wrote:

> Mark Wooding <mdw at distorted.org.uk>:
> 
>> Sebastian "lunar" Wiesner <basti.wiesner at gmx.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> # perl -e '("a" x 100000) =~ /^(ab?)*$/;'
>>> zsh: segmentation fault  perl -e '("a" x 100000) =~ /^(ab?)*$/;'
>> 
>> (Did you really run that as root?)
> 
> How come, that you think so?

The '#' is usually the prompt of root accounts while ordinary users get a '$'.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch