Perl speed vs. Python speed

[Henry S. Thompson]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> if everything goes according to plan, 're' (and possibly also
> 'regex') will be replaced by a new unicode-aware engine in
> 1.6.  I've attached some (somewhat outdated) benchmarks.

Thanks for the details, I'm moderately desperate to get integrated
unicode support, when are we hoping to see the first 1.6 beta hit the
streets?

ht
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