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The string ?( bogs down REPL input to a crawl #56272

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This is a funny one. Having the character combination of ?( anywhere in a REPL prompt — including in a string — makes input devastatingly slow. This is new in Julia v1.11. I'm on macOS 15.0.1 with an M1 processor and iTerm2:

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julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.1
Commit 8f5b7ca12ad (2024-10-16 10:53 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin22.4.0)
  CPU: 8 × Apple M1 Pro
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, apple-m1)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 6 virtual cores)

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