Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The patch makes some operations slightly faster.
$ ./python -m perf timeit -s 'import re; m = re.match(r"(?P<int>\d+)(?:\.(?P<frac>\d*))?", "12.34")' -- --duplicate 100 'm.lastgroup' Unpatched: Median +- std dev: 204 ns +- 1 ns Patched: Median +- std dev: 167 ns +- 2 ns $ ./python -m perf timeit -s 'import re; m = re.match(r"(?P<int>\d+)(?:\.(?P<frac>\d*))?", "12.34")' -- --duplicate 100 'm.groupdict()' Unpatched: Median +- std dev: 2.78 us +- 0.05 us Patched: Median +- std dev: 1.98 us +- 0.04 us $ ./python -m perf timeit -s 'import re; m = re.match(r"(?P<int>\d+)(?:\.(?P<frac>\d*))?", "12.34")' -- --duplicate 100 'm.start("frac")' Unpatched: Median +- std dev: 638 ns +- 22 ns Patched: Median +- std dev: 576 ns +- 16 ns $ ./python -m perf timeit -s 'import re; m = re.match(r"(?P<int>\d+)(?:\.(?P<frac>\d*))?", "12.34")' -- --duplicate 100 'm.group("frac")' Unpatched: Median +- std dev: 1.15 us +- 0.03 us Patched: Median +- std dev: 1.07 us +- 0.03 us ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28765> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com