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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:20:57 +1000
Subject: Re: Why is regex so slow?
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>  I'm tempted to open this up as a performance bug against the regex module (which I assume will be rejected, at least for the 2.x series).

Yeah, I'd try that against 3.3 before opening a performance bug. Also,
it's entirely possible that performance is majorly different in 3.x
anyway, on account of strings being Unicode. Definitely merits another
look imho.

ChrisA