Mastering Regular Expressions

Section 6.1.  

Section 6.2.   A Sobering Example

Section 6.3.   A Global View of Backtracking

Section 6.4.   Benchmarking

Section 6.5.   Common Optimizations

Section 6.6.   Techniques for Faster Expressions

Section 6.7.   Unrolling the Loop

Section 6.8.   The Freeflowing Regex

Section 6.9.   In Summary: Think!