> From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
> We were going to use [the cut operator] to optimize inventory
> operations by combining all the regexes into one. But it turned
> out that libhackerlab needed to be fixed, because the cut
> operator was disabling important regex optimizations.
Did I leave you with the wrong impression, re that?
The fix there is on the order of one line of code.
It's just that it's a fix in a critical and complex part of
libhackerlab so somebody needs to spend 3 days doing it very
carefully.
It's like the difference between changing "a lightbulb"
and changing "The Lightbulb". Equally trivial, but not to be done on
a whim or while distracted.