H as long as we aren't the ones writing the check:)

BJ

----------Original Message----------

From: Fred Drake <fdr...@acm.org>
Sent: Fri, July 09, 2010 1:16 PM
To: MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Cc: Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org>
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> I concentrated my efforts on the matching speed because regexes tend to
> be compiled only once, and are cached anyway, so I don't think it's as
> important.

I think most here will agree with that, but it might be good to keep
in mind that the sre implementation has already made that trade-off
once.  I don't remember what the compilation slowdown was at the time,
but I'd be surprised if Google can't find it, given sufficient fu.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at gmail.com>
"A storm broke loose in my mind."  --Albert Einstein
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