On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp...@aim.com> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +0000, Mats Peterson wrote: >> >>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want >>> to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python >>> regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. >> >> That's by design. We don't want to make the same mistake as Perl, where >> every problem is solved by a regular expression: >> >> http://neilk.net/blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test-for-prime-numbers/ >> >> so we deliberately make regexes as slow as possible so that programmers >> will look for a better way to solve their problem. If you check the >> source code for the re engine, you'll find that for certain regexes, it >> busy-waits for anything up to 30 seconds at a time, deliberately wasting >> cycles. >> >> The same with Unicode. We hate French people, you see, and so in an >> effort to drive everyone back to ASCII-only text, Python 3.3 introduces >> some memory optimizations that ensures that Unicode strings work >> correctly and are up to four times smaller than they used to be. You >> should get together with jmfauth, who has discovered our dastardly plot >> and keeps posting benchmarks showing how on carefully contrived micro- >> benchmarks using a beta version of Python 3.3, non-ASCII string >> operations can be marginally slower than in 3.2. >> >> >>> Additionally my account has been suspended for 7 days. Such a dickwad. >> >> I cannot imagine why he would have done that. >> >> > > You're obviously trying hard to be funny. It fails miserably.
Either that or it's funny only to other Australians. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
