Whitespace normalization and regex simplification #76
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The RE_COMMENT regex seems unnecessarily complex: I've simplified it.
The whitespace normalization is the focus of this pull request. I'm working with Rails' asset pipeline and I found a peculiarity where one of its resulting CSS assets contains over 5,000 spaces (between two sheets that it pulled together). This is causing selectivizr to hang; I suspect the excessive space may be triggering "catastrophic backtracking." I've wrapped the loaded stylesheet with normalizeWhitespace to prevent this from happening.