CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

regex re speed

>>> import re, regex
>>> import timeit
>>> p_re = re.compile('(.*)sol(.*)')
>>> p_regex = regex.compile('(.*)sol(.*)')
>>> s = "ciao mandi "*1000 + "sal " + "ciao mandi "*1000
>>> timeit.timeit("p.findall(s)", 'from __main__ import s, p_re as p', number=1)
2.4578459990007104
>>> timeit.timeit("p.findall(s)", 'from __main__ import s, p_regex as p', number=100000)
1.955532732012216