[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

[anatoly techtonik]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:52 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I re-implemented the re module, adding new features and speed
> improvements. It's available at:
>
>    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
>
> under the name "regex" so that it can be tried alongside "re".
>
> I'd be interested in any comments or feedback. How does it compare with
> "re" in terms of speed on real-world data? The benchmarks suggest it
> should be faster, or at worst comparable.

And where are the benchmarks?
In particular it would be interesting to see it compared both to re
from stdlib and re2 from  http://code.google.com/p/re2/

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anatoly t.