Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: > Sorry for the previous post, hit the Enter button by mistake... here's > the complete one: > > Hi everybody! > > I've written the code below to test the differences in performance > between compiled and non-compiled regular expression matching but I > don't quite understand the results. It appears that the compiled the > pattern only takes 2% less time to process the match. Is there some > caching going on in the uncompiled section that prevents me from > noticing its otherwise lower speed?
Yes. There is even a purge-function to clear that cache, for whatever reason. To answer that question yourself, you could have taken a look into the python library, it's not as scary as you might think :) Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
