fprof is great at telling what in a given workflow is taking time but
comparing fprof results won't tell you by how much it got faster. For that
you will have to benchmark it again. For tight-loops though, I can see how
removing the version check, option handling and everything else speeds up
perfo
Alright. If you can't see it, then it must have been something in my
environment. What I did when working on this is run fprof to identify
potential performance problems, and the version checked showed up as a
substantial part of the time spent in the regex code. Is that a valid use
of fprof in
