Add possessive quantifiers where it makes sense to avoid unneeded backtracking

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Semantic versioning utilities with the addition of version constraints parsing and checking.

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Add possessive quantifiers where it makes sense to avoid unneeded backtracking #29

Closed Seldaek closed 9 years ago

Seldaek commented 9 years ago

I think it's safe, and it passes the test suite. Shouldn't matter a whole lot though as I think most of those regexes fail pretty quickly or succeed in one go, but it probably doesn't hurt.

alcohol commented 9 years ago

Nerd.