[Python-Dev] SRE 0.9.8 benchmarks

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:27:39AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>if it will ever be translated, that is...

I'll agree to take a shot at it (which carries no implication of
actually finisihing :) ) post-2.0.  It's silly for all of Tcl, Python,
Perl to grow their own implementations, when a common implementation
could benefit from having 3x the number of eyes looking at it and
optimizing it.

>fwiw, that pattern isn't portable:

No, it isn't; the straightforward implementation of repeated groups is
recursive, and fixing this requires jumping through hoops to make it
nonrecursive (or adopting Python's solution and only recursing up to
some upper limit).  re had to get this right because regex didn't
crash on this pattern, and neither do recent Perls.  The vast bulk of
my patches to PCRE were to fix this problem.

--amk