Python too slow for real world

[Roy Smith]

James Logajan <JamesL at Lugoj.Com> wrote:
> When an SME finds the tool too slow, it would be nice if they could post
> their problem to a group like this without fear of insult, intended or not.

There was no intent to insult.

The thread was moving in the direction of "my program using regex is too
slow, and I think the solution would be to move regex into the python core
to make it faster".  I was just pointing out why that is flawed reasoning.

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Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu>
New York University School of Medicine