On the Speed of ReST

[Jane Austine]

I'm trying to use ReST in my wiki-like system, in order to avoid
reinventing the wheel. However, some people reported ReST is
impractically slow for dynamic HTML generation on the fly. Most
Python-based wikis mainly use re.sub instead of statemachine as in
ReST. Is it slow because of that?

What can I do to speed it up? Should I look for something else like re
module?

Jane