From: mlh at idt.ntnu.no (Magnus L. Hetland)
Date: 25 Apr 1999 19:31:47 +0200
Subject: Python too slow for real world
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Justin Sheehy <justin at linus.mitre.org> writes:

> mlh at idt.ntnu.no (Magnus L. Hetland) writes:
> 
> > (And... How about builtin regexes in P2?)
> 
> Um, why?  I don't see any need at all for them to move from
> module-status to core-language-status.  
[...]
> 
> In all seriousness, what reason do you have for making that
> suggestion?  I am willing to believe that there might be a good reason 
> to do so, but it certainly isn't immediately obvious.

Now, that's really simple -- because re.py is slow. I thought maybe
some of the slowness might be improved by a c-implementation, that's
all. Not too important to me...
> 
> -Justin
> 

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