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When rewriting something is hard we often say that it relates to the code complexity. Might that be the reason here?
by abstractspoon 1y ago
When rewriting something is hard we often say that it relates to the code complexity.
Might that be the reason here?
- rurban 1y agoHe explained it. Because of encodings complexities, which lead to exponential cases: backtracking regexp, and unicode case-folding. Plus the need for metadata to be carried along, and customizations, hooks, esp. making rendering slow.