Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Here is a patch that adds more optimizations for searching patterns that starts with a literal string and groups. In particular it includes a case when a pattern starts with a group containing single character.
Examples: $ ./python -m timeit -s "import re; p = re.compile('(\n)'); s = ('a'*100 + '\n')*1000" -- "p.split(s)" Unpatched: 100 loops, best of 3: 4.58 msec per loop Patched : 1000 loops, best of 3: 562 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s "import re; p = re.compile('(\n\r)'); s = ('a'*100 + '\n\r')*1000" -- "p.split(s)" Unpatched: 100 loops, best of 3: 3.1 msec per loop Patched : 1000 loops, best of 3: 663 usec per loop For comparison: $ ./python -m timeit -s "import re; p = re.compile('\n'); s = ('a'*100 + '\n')*1000" -- "p.split(s)" 1000 loops, best of 3: 329 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s "import re; p = re.compile('\n\r'); s = ('a'*100 + '\n\r')*1000" -- "p.split(s)" 1000 loops, best of 3: 338 usec per loop Optimized also more complex but rare cases, such as '\n()\r' or '((\n)(\r))'. Fast searching no longer can be disabled. ---------- assignee: -> serhiy.storchaka keywords: +patch stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39684/re_literal_prefix_with_groups.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24426> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com