Derek Ford

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CSS file of 320 bytes takes 10+ seconds to parse

No patch at the moment, but I believe this is related to backtracking in the regular expressions parsing strings, for the specific input shared. The lengthy call is located at...

CSS file of 320 bytes takes 10+ seconds to parse

This can be fixed by rewriting the string productions (`r"'(\\.|[^'])*'"`) or using an alternative regular expression library that does not rely on backtracking, such as [re2](https://pypi.org/project/re2/), which may be used...