How to make regexes faster? (Python v. OmniMark)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <a9pj29$pdm$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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>Part of the problem is that when you write something like a "grep"
>in Python and in Perl, the Perl program will naturally be written
>like while ($line = <STDIN>) {...}, and the Python program will
>naturally be written like while 1: line = sys.stdin.readline() ...
>That pits a lot of function calls against what must be an inline
>operation.  I think I decided that "I/O", in this practical sense
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Worse (or at least "more"):  Perl goes out of its way to optimize
  while ($line = <>) {...}
'Least, it has in the past; I haven't looked lately.
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