diff --git a/src/pkg/regexp/all_test.go b/src/pkg/regexp/all_test.go
index 301a1dfcd8..5fadb67c09 100644
--- a/src/pkg/regexp/all_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/regexp/all_test.go
@@ -475,6 +475,9 @@ func TestSplit(t *testing.T) {
 
 // This ran out of stack before issue 7608 was fixed.
 func TestOnePassCutoff(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping in short mode")
+	}
 	MustCompile(`^(?:x{1,1000}){1,1000}$`)
 }