[pypy-issue] Issue #2784: re is much slower on PyPy2 than on PyPy3 (pypy/pypy)

[Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick]

New issue 2784: re is much slower on PyPy2 than on PyPy3
https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/2784/re-is-much-slower-on-pypy2-than-on-pypy3

Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick:

On the benchmark bm_regex_v8.py which measures re performance, PyPy2 is much slower than Pypy3, see here: https://hackernoon.com/which-is-the-fastest-version-of-python-2ae7c61a6b2b