# HG changeset patch # User Chengsong # Date 1561806917 -3600 # Node ID a28f1d5daa347a510d00a27fc3a9c458dc0f5190 # Parent 5ca7bf724474a632b22f9a98af09d656b88a1360 footnote diff -r 5ca7bf724474 -r a28f1d5daa34 ecp/ecoop_paper.tex --- a/ecp/ecoop_paper.tex Wed Jun 26 21:40:33 2019 +0100 +++ b/ecp/ecoop_paper.tex Sat Jun 29 12:15:17 2019 +0100 @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ This exponential blowup sometimes causes real pain in real life: for example on 20 July 2016 one evil regular expression brought the -webpage \href{http://stackexchange.com}{Stack Exchange} to its knees \cite{SE16}. +webpage \href{http://stackexchange.com}{Stack Exchange} to its knees \footnote{https://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-july-20-2016}. In this instance, a regular expression intended to just trim white spaces from the beginning and the end of a line actually consumed massive amounts of CPU-resources and because of this the web servers