Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

[Mats Peterson]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +0000, Mats Peterson wrote:
>
>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want
>> to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python
>> regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl.
>
> That's by design. We don't want to make the same mistake as Perl, where 
> every problem is solved by a regular expression:
>
> http://neilk.net/blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test-for-prime-numbers/
>
> so we deliberately make regexes as slow as possible so that programmers 
> will look for a better way to solve their problem. If you check the 
> source code for the re engine, you'll find that for certain regexes, it 
> busy-waits for anything up to 30 seconds at a time, deliberately wasting 
> cycles.
>
> The same with Unicode. We hate French people, you see, and so in an 
> effort to drive everyone back to ASCII-only text, Python 3.3 introduces 
> some memory optimizations that ensures that Unicode strings work 
> correctly and are up to four times smaller than they used to be. You 
> should get together with jmfauth, who has discovered our dastardly plot 
> and keeps posting benchmarks showing how on carefully contrived micro-
> benchmarks using a beta version of Python 3.3, non-ASCII string 
> operations can be marginally slower than in 3.2.
>
>
>> Additionally my account has been suspended for 7 days. Such a dickwad.
>
> I cannot imagine why he would have done that.
>
>

You're obviously trying hard to be funny. It fails miserably.

Mats

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