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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:26:58 -0700
Subject: Re: Curious to see alternate approach on a search/replace via regex
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Ian Kelly wrote:
> Surely that depends on the size of the pattern, and the size of the data
> being worked on.

Natually.

> Compiling the pattern "s[ai]t" doesn't take that much work, it's only six
> characters and very simple. Applying it to:
>
> "sazsid"*1000000 + "sat"
>
> on the other hand may be a tad expensive.
>
> Sweeping generalities about the cost of compiling regexes versus searching
> with them are risky.

I was referring to the specific timing measurements I made earlier in
this thread, not generalizing.