Hi<div><br></div><div>I was reading a bit about the regex module and I would like to present some other solution into speeding up the re module for Python.</div><div><br></div><div>So, as a bit of background - pypy has a re compatible module. It&#39;s also JITted and it&#39;s also exportable as a C library (that is a library you can call from C with C API, not a python extension module). I wonder if it would be worth to put some work into it to make it a library that CPython can use.</div>

<div><br></div><div>On the minus side, the JIT only works on x86 and x86_64, on the plus side, since it&#39;s 100% API compatible, it can be used as a _xxx speedup module relatively easy.</div><div><br></div><div>Do people have opinions?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>fijal</div>