Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-19 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Uwe Schmitt wrote: > Are there any plans to speed up Pythons regular expression module ? > Or > is the example in this artricle too far from reality ??? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 18 Nov., 18:47, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > All of this is prototyped in Python and it is still work in progress. > > As long as development has not reached a stable state I refuse to > > rebuild the system in an optimized C version. > > And rightfully so:

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-18 Thread Stefan Behnel
Kay Schluehr wrote: > All of this is prototyped in Python and it is still work in progress. > As long as development has not reached a stable state I refuse to > rebuild the system in an optimized C version. And rightfully so: 1) the approach is algorithmically better, so it may even beat the cur

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-18 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 17 Nov., 22:37, Uwe Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is anobody aware of this post: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html > ? > > Are there any plans to speed up Pythons regular expression module ? > Or > is the example in this artricle too far from reality ??? > > Greetings, U

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-17 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:37:18 -0200, Uwe Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Is anobody aware of this post: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ? Are there any plans to speed up Pythons regular expression module ? Or is the example in this artricle too far from reality ??? It's a p

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-17 Thread MRAB
On Nov 17, 10:24 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry Hill wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Uwe Schmitt > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> Is anobody aware of this post:  http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html? > > > Yes, it's been brought up here, on python-

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-17 Thread Terry Reedy
Jerry Hill wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Uwe Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Is anobody aware of this post: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ? Yes, it's been brought up here, on python-dev and python-ideas several times in the past year and a half. Are there any p

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-17 Thread Terry Reedy
Uwe Schmitt wrote: Hi, Is anobody aware of this post: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ? Near the end: While writing the text editor sam [6] in the early 1980s, Rob Pike wrote a new regular expression implementation, which Dave Presotto extracted into a library that appeared in th

Re: regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry Hill
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Uwe Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is anobody aware of this post: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ? Yes, it's been brought up here, on python-dev and python-ideas several times in the past year and a half. > Are there any plans to speed u

regular expressions ... slow

2008-11-17 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Hi, Is anobody aware of this post: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ? Are there any plans to speed up Pythons regular expression module ? Or is the example in this artricle too far from reality ??? Greetings, Uwe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list