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in thread A regex that only matches at offset that are multiples of a given N?

You're right!

Moving the pos modification into the while loop body means that it only gets executed after successful (aligned) matches.

And that helps my performance a lot.

Thank you. Especially for persisting when I wasn't seeing the wood for the trees.

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