[Python-ideas] Support parsing stream with `re`

[Ram Rachum]

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:40 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> I'm sure that Python will never be as efficient as C in that regard
> (although PyPy might argue the point) but is there something we can do
> to ameliorate this? If we could make char-by-char processing only 10
> times less efficient than C instead of 100 times (let's say...) perhaps
> that would help Ram (and you?) with your use-cases?
>
>
Does that mean I'll have to write that character-by-character algorithm? I
could already do that now I guess, the speed doesn't matter for my use
case, but I'm trying to avoid writing an algorithm.
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