Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, here are some results from the benchmarks suite:
Report on Linux fsol 3.8.0-27-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 9 00:17:05 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 Total CPU cores: 4 ### regex_effbot ### Min: 0.058952 -> 0.054367: 1.08x faster Avg: 0.059060 -> 0.054378: 1.09x faster Significant (t=132.69) Stddev: 0.00008 -> 0.00001: 5.9597x smaller ### regex_v8 ### Min: 0.063401 -> 0.050701: 1.25x faster Avg: 0.066147 -> 0.053530: 1.24x faster Significant (t=3.22) Stddev: 0.00608 -> 0.00630: 1.0363x larger The following not significant results are hidden, use -v to show them: regex_compile. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18685> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com