[Python-Dev] Pie-thon benchmarks

[Guido van Rossum]

> > 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/)