Why is regex so slow?

[Roy Smith]

On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:10:16 PM UTC-4, Johannes Bauer wrote:

> Resulting file has a size of 91530018 and md5 of
> > 2d20c3447a0b51a37d28126b8348f6c5 (just to make sure we're on the same
> > page because I'm not sure the PRNG is stable across Python versions).

If people want to test against my original data, grab

https://s3.amazonaws.com/songza/recruiting/logs.tar.gz

and do "cat app[12].error.log > error.log".