Split into powers of 2 using regex

There are so many levels of abuse here it's not even funny.

for (String s :
   new String(new char[(1 << 8) - 1])
   .split("(?=(.*))(?<=(?<=(^.*))\\G.*)(?<=(?=\\2\\2.\\1)^.*)")
) {
   System.out.printf("%s ", s.length());
} // "1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 "

I think there's still room for "improvement", though...

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"Improvements", as Java string literals:

"(?=(.*))(?<=(?<=(^.*))\\G.*)(?<=(?=\\2\\2.\\1)^.*)"
"(?=(.*))(?<=(?<=(^.*))\\G.*)(?<=(?=\\2.\\1)\\G.*)"