On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>wrote:
> On the minus side, the JIT only works on x86 and x86_64, on the plus >> side, since it's 100% API compatible, it can be used as a _xxx >> speedup module relatively easy. >> >> Do people have opinions? >> > > The main concern for re is not speed, but functionality. The Python re > module needs to grow a number of features, and correct a number of bugs. > So 100% compatible is actually not good enough. 95% compatible (with > the features added and the bugs fixed) would be better. > > OTOH, sharing the re code with PyPy would be a desirable goal, as would > be writing the re code in Python (although SRE already implements > significant parts in Python). > We did not reimplement those parts in RPython, they're still in python (so the sre engine does not accept regex, but instead the lower-level description, etc. etc.) > > As a speedup module, it's uninteresting - we want to simplify maintenance, > not complicate it. So this can only work if it replaces > SRE. > > Regards, > Martin >
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