re.search much slower then grep on some regular expressions

[Paddy]

On Jul 5, 4:13 pm, Mark Dickinson <dicki... at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems like an appropriate moment to point out *this* paper:
>
> http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
>

That's the one!

Thanks Mark.

- Paddy.