Removed redundant regex capturing groups

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Summary of the changes (Less than 80 chars)

• Removed redundant regex capturing groups.

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Pull request overview

This PR simplifies several regular expressions by removing redundant outer capturing groups, keeping matching behavior the same while slightly reducing regex overhead and avoiding unused group captures.

Changes:

• Removed unnecessary outer capturing groups from whitespace normalization regexes.
• Removed unnecessary outer capturing groups from several scalar validation regex patterns (RGB/RGBA/IP).

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File	Description
src/HotChocolate/Core/src/Types/Types/Descriptors/Conventions/XmlDocumentationProvider.cs	Simplifies whitespace-detection regex by removing an unused capturing group.
src/HotChocolate/Core/src/Types.Scalars/RgbaType.cs	Removes redundant outer capturing group from RGBA validation pattern.
src/HotChocolate/Core/src/Types.Scalars/RgbType.cs	Removes redundant outer capturing group from RGB validation pattern.
src/HotChocolate/Core/src/Types.Scalars/IPv6Type.cs	Removes redundant outer capturing group from IPv6 validation pattern while preserving anchors.
src/HotChocolate/Core/src/Types.Scalars/IPv4Type.cs	Removes redundant outer capturing group from IPv4 validation pattern while preserving anchors.
src/HotChocolate/Core/src/Types.Analyzers/Helpers/GeneratorUtils.cs	Simplifies whitespace-detection regex by removing an unused capturing group.

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🚀 Fusion Gateway Performance Results

Simple Composite Query

Constant Load (50 VUs)

Requests/sec	Error Rate
25130.55 req/s	0.00%

📊 Response Time Metrics

Min	Med	Max	Avg	P90	P95
0.09ms	1.61ms	41.03ms	1.94ms	3.65ms	4.52ms

Ramping Load (0→50→500→50 VUs)

Requests/sec	Error Rate
19507.33 req/s	0.00%

📊 Response Time Metrics

Min	Med	Max	Avg	P90	P95
0.09ms	8.64ms	106.66ms	10.79ms	22.46ms	27.04ms

Executed Query

fragment User on User {
  id
  username
  name
}

fragment Review on Review {
  id
  body
}

fragment Product on Product {
  inStock
  name
  price
  shippingEstimate
  upc
  weight
}

query TestQuery {
  topProducts(first: 5) {
    ...Product
    reviews {
      ...Review
      author {
        ...User
      }
    }
  }
}

Deep Recursion Query

Constant Load (50 VUs)

Requests/sec	Error Rate
24215.51 req/s	0.00%

📊 Response Time Metrics

Min	Med	Max	Avg	P90	P95
0.09ms	1.67ms	47.10ms	2.02ms	3.84ms	4.71ms

Ramping Load (0→50→500→50 VUs)

Requests/sec	Error Rate
19193.91 req/s	0.00%

📊 Response Time Metrics

Min	Med	Max	Avg	P90	P95
0.09ms	8.75ms	94.83ms	10.91ms	22.76ms	27.42ms

Executed Query

fragment User on User {
  id
  username
  name
}

fragment Review on Review {
  id
  body
}

fragment Product on Product {
  inStock
  name
  price
  shippingEstimate
  upc
  weight
}

query TestQuery {
  users {
    ...User
    reviews {
      ...Review
      product {
        ...Product
        reviews {
          ...Review
          author {
            ...User
            reviews {
              ...Review
              product {
                ...Product
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
  topProducts(first: 5) {
    ...Product
    reviews {
      ...Review
      author {
        ...User
        reviews {
          ...Review
          product {
            ...Product
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Variable Batching Throughput

Constant Load (50 VUs)

Requests/sec	Error Rate
27593.40 req/s	0.00%

📊 Response Time Metrics

Min	Med	Max	Avg	P90	P95
0.08ms	1.46ms	46.14ms	1.77ms	3.35ms	4.11ms

Ramping Load (0→50→500→50 VUs)

Requests/sec	Error Rate
21621.45 req/s	0.00%

📊 Response Time Metrics

Min	Med	Max	Avg	P90	P95
0.08ms	7.24ms	103.08ms	9.55ms	20.25ms	24.71ms

Executed Query

query TestQuery_8f7a46ce_2(
  $__fusion_1_upc: ID!
  $__fusion_2_price: Long!
  $__fusion_2_weight: Long!
) {
  productByUpc(upc: $__fusion_1_upc) {
    inStock
    shippingEstimate(weight: $__fusion_2_weight, price: $__fusion_2_price)
  }
}

Variables (5 sets batched in single request)

[
  { "__fusion_1_upc": "1", "__fusion_2_price": 899, "__fusion_2_weight": 100 },
  { "__fusion_1_upc": "2", "__fusion_2_price": 1299, "__fusion_2_weight": 1000 },
  { "__fusion_1_upc": "3", "__fusion_2_price": 15, "__fusion_2_weight": 20 },
  { "__fusion_1_upc": "4", "__fusion_2_price": 499, "__fusion_2_weight": 100 },
  { "__fusion_1_upc": "5", "__fusion_2_price": 1299, "__fusion_2_weight": 1000 }
]

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Run 21816382582 • Commit 4ab4ba7 • Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:56:27 GMT