[Python-Dev] Pie-thon benchmarks (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Dec 14 17:20:56 EST 2003


> whether regular > expressions are in or out.

Regular expressions should be omitted. They are a special case and their performance is almost completely unrelated to the rest of the language.

Yeah, but I imagine Parrot will have to support them anyway, and I could use them for a parser I was thinking of as a benchmark. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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