https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60668
--- Comment #3 from Philippe Mouawad <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Felix Schumacher from comment #2) > The used regex is badly composed and will take a long time on moderately > long inputs. > > The important pieces here are, that the matching is done in the awt thread > and thus blocking the GUI. Secondly Java has no standard way to interrupt > regex matches. > > On > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/910740/cancelling-a-long-running-regex- > match > Is a nice wrapper for charsequence, which in combination with a thread can > be used to make the matching interruptible. > > I think I can produce a patch, but it will probably take a few days. Hi Felix, Do you think it's worth the work ? Badly built Regex can lead to catastrophic backtracking that would kill performance of Load Test anyway. Regards -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
