[Python-Dev] interesting article on regex performance

[Georg Brandl]

Am 12.03.2010 20:29, schrieb skip at pobox.com:
> 
>     >> There are major practical problems associated with making such a leap
>     >> directly (Google's re2 engine is in C++ rather than C and we'd have
>     >> to keep the existing implementation around regardless to handle the
>     >> features that re2 doesn't support).
> 
>     Collin> I don't see why C++ would be a deal-breaker in this case, since
>     Collin> it would be restricted to an extension module.
> 
> Traditionally Python has run on some (minority) platforms where C++ was
> unavailable.  While the re module is a dynamically linked extension module
> and thus could be considered "optional", I doubt anybody thinks of it as
> optional nowadays.

Actually, _sre is a builtin module by default since at least Python 2.5.

Georg

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