[issue8064] Large regex handling very slow on Linux

[Michael Foord]

Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> added the comment:

Interestingly, the code olivers is using was originally written by Martin v. Loewis:

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t646421-unicode-regex-and-hindi-language.html

In response to a still open bug report on \w in the Python re module:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1693050

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