Possessive quantifiers in Regex patterns like below improve performance by eliminating needless backtracking:

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?+ , *+ , ++ , {n}+ , {n,}+ , {n,m}+
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But because possessive quantifiers do not keep backtracking positions and never give back, the following sub-patterns should not match only similar characters. Otherwise, possessive quantifiers consume all characters that could have matched the following sub-patterns and nothing remains for the following sub-patterns.