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Re: Why is regex so slow?

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> I don't understand why the first way is so much slower.

I have no obvious answers, but a couple suggestions:

1. Can you anchor the pattern at the beginning of the line?  (use
match() instead of search())
2. Does it get faster it you eliminate the "(.*)" part of the pattern?
 It seems that if you find a line matching the first part of the
pattern, you could just as easily split the line yourself instead of
creating a group.

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Why is regex so slow? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-06-18 12:45 -0400
  Re: Why is regex so slow? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-06-18 12:01 -0500
  Re: Why is regex so slow? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-06-18 13:08 -0400
  Re: Why is regex so slow? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-19 03:20 +1000
    Re: Why is regex so slow? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-06-18 20:10 +0200
      Re: Why is regex so slow? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-06-18 12:40 -0700
      Re: Why is regex so slow? André Malo <ndparker@gmail.com> - 2013-06-18 21:59 +0200
        Re: Why is regex so slow? André Malo <ndparker@gmail.com> - 2013-06-18 22:13 +0200
  Re: Why is regex so slow? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-18 18:31 +0100
  Re: Why is regex so slow? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-18 18:34 +0100
    Re: Why is regex so slow? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-06-18 15:21 -0400
      Re: Why is regex so slow? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-18 20:49 +0100
  Re: Why is regex so slow? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-18 12:21 -0700
  Re: Why is regex so slow? Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-06-18 20:05 +0000
    Re: Why is regex so slow? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-06-18 13:23 -0700
      Re: Why is regex so slow? Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-19 13:21 +0000
        Re: Why is regex so slow? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-06-19 12:55 -0700
    Re: Why is regex so slow? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-18 20:30 +0000
      Re: Why is regex so slow? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-06-18 17:29 -0400
      Re: Why is regex so slow? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-06-19 10:29 +0200
  Re: Why is regex so slow? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-19 01:51 +0000
    Re: Why is regex so slow? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-18 22:11 -0400
      Re: Why is regex so slow? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-19 03:16 +0000

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