actually it breaks around 15000 for me, I think it depends on the total length of the regex-string.

15000 alternatives: 

lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~/B/PL/PM/buk_trie$ perl buk_trie.pl chapter2.txt 
481Finding 1027 words (of 5038) took 0.041860 seconds using a hash
482Finding 923 words took 0.025128 seconds using a trie(via regex engi
+ne)

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15500 alternatives 

lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~/B/PL/PM/buk_trie$ perl buk_trie.pl chapter2.txt 
481Finding 1078 words (of 5038) took 0.040339 seconds using a hash
482Finding 958 words took 10.042522 seconds using a trie(via regex eng
+ine)

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changing buffer-size didn't help.

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi

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> For most of my stuff, that limit is way to low to consider.

well as already stated by AnoMonk, you can split the set into different regexes with < 10000 alternatives.

Regexes can do things which hashes can't...

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^8: Efficient matching with accompanying data by LanX
in thread Efficient matching with accompanying data by Endless

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