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Bug 429190

Summary:	JavaScript Syntax Highlighting Regex freezes browser on long long lines
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Simon Kaegi <simon_kaegi>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Simon Kaegi <simon_kaegi>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	grant_gayed
Version:	5.0	Flags:	grant_gayed: review+
Target Milestone:	5.0 RC3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Simon Kaegi

2014-02-26 15:46:12 EST

By long I mean like 500K however this sometimes is what you get with minified files.

Our regexes result in the use of backtracking which totally kills performance.

We need a small targeted fix for the release

Comment 1 Simon Kaegi

2014-02-26 15:48:34 EST

Grant reviewed -- pushed to Master