in reply to Re^5: Help with speeding up regex
in thread Help with speeding up regex

1) When a regex takes anything from 60 to 500 times longer to run against a given volume of data, than it takes to read that volume of data from disk, IO is unlikely to be the underlying problem.

2) NYTProf is not the only profiling tool.

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