Message 174927 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I think the lru_cache should be kept if possible (i.e. I'm -0.5 on your patch). If this result in a slowdown (as the mako_v2 benchmark indicates), then there are two options:

1. optimize lru_cache;
2. avoid using it for regular expressions compiled with re.compile; Both the changes should improve the performances. This issue is about the re module, so I think it's ok to cover any changes to the re module here, and improvements to lru_cache (e.g. a faster make_key) should be moved to a new issue. If this is not enough to restore the performances we might decide to go back to a custom cache instead of using lru_cache.