catastrophic backtracking
An excessively large amount of backtracking that occurs with certain regular…An excessively large amount of backtracking that occurs with certain regular expressions, due to an exponentially large number of possible matching paths to check.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)An excessively large amount of backtracking that occurs with certain regular expressions, due to an exponentially large number of possible matching paths to check.
Origin
From catastrophic + backtracking.From catastrophic + backtracking.
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Synonyms
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable