Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>
> > On the minus side, the JIT only works on x86 and x86_64, on the plus
> >> side, since it's 100% API compatible, it can be used as a _xxx
> >> speedup module relatively easy.
> >>
> >> Do people have opini
2012/6/3 Maciej Fijalkowski :
> Hi
>
> I was reading a bit about the regex module and I would like to present some
> other solution into speeding up the re module for Python.
IMO, the most important feature of the regex module is that it fixes
long standing bugs and includes long requested feature
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> On the minus side, the JIT only works on x86 and x86_64, on the plus
>> side, since it's 100% API compatible, it can be used as a _xxx
>> speedup module relatively easy.
>>
>> Do people have opinions?
>>
>
> The main concern for re is not
On the minus side, the JIT only works on x86 and x86_64, on the plus
side, since it's 100% API compatible, it can be used as a _xxx
speedup module relatively easy.
Do people have opinions?
The main concern for re is not speed, but functionality. The Python re
module needs to grow a number of fe
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> The embedded (in both senses of the term) use cases for CPython pretty
> much kill the idea, I'm afraid.
>
As I said it can (and should) definitely be optional.
> Those cases are also one of the biggest question marks over incorporating
> r
The embedded (in both senses of the term) use cases for CPython pretty much
kill the idea, I'm afraid.
Those cases are also one of the biggest question marks over incorporating
regex wholesale instead of incrementally updating the existing engine to
achieve feature parity.
Publishing such a JIT c
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Calvin Spealman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I was reading a bit about the regex module and I would like to present
> some
> > other solution into speeding up the re module for Python.
> >
> > So, as a bit of b
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was reading a bit about the regex module and I would like to present some
> other solution into speeding up the re module for Python.
>
> So, as a bit of background - pypy has a re compatible module. It's also
> JITted and it's a
