Due to the way regular expression matching is implemented in Java (and many other languages/libraries), matching a pattern may - depending on the regex - require stack space proportional to the length ...

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Java doesn't have @tailrec like scala : (. You may ask why am I increasing stack size, it is because since I don't know much about the reactor's code internals and it sometimes runs successfully - ...