Is Perl *that* good?

[Peter Hansen]

Roy Smith wrote:

> I don't see anything in the reference manual which says re.match() 
> caches compilations, but I suspect it does.  Even a trivial check for 
> "thisRegEx is lastRegEx" would be sufficient to negate the speed 
> advantage of pre-compiling in most cases.  Anybody know if it does this?

Found after trying a half dozen different searches.  (Short answer: yes.)

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.lang.python+cache+regular+match&selm=mailman.1058996747.17558.python-list%40python.org

-Peter