bug#55744: infinite loop

[Daniel R. Grayson]

Conceivably, although I wasn't referring to the manual, even after I isolated the offending

regexp.  

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 3:15 PM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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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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