re module microoptimization: speed up bytes \w \s \d matching

[gpshead]

BPO	34636
Nosy	@gpshead, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-34636: Use fast path for more chars in SRE category macros. #9170

^{Note: these values reflect the state of the issue at the time it was migrated and might not reflect the current state.}

Show more details

GitHub fields:

assignee = 'https://github.com/gpshead'
closed_at = <Date 2018-09-12.00:14:20.241>
created_at = <Date 2018-09-11.22:00:58.089>
labels = ['3.8', 'performance']
title = 're module microoptimization: speed up bytes \\w \\s \\d matching'
updated_at = <Date 2018-09-12.00:14:20.240>
user = 'https://github.com/gpshead'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2018-09-12.00:14:20.240>
actor = 'gregory.p.smith'
assignee = 'gregory.p.smith'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2018-09-12.00:14:20.241>
closer = 'gregory.p.smith'
components = []
creation = <Date 2018-09-11.22:00:58.089>
creator = 'gregory.p.smith'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 34636
keywords = []
message_count = 3.0
messages = ['325073', '325074', '325086']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['gregory.p.smith', 'miss-islington']
pr_nums = ['9170']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'commit review'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'performance'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue34636'
versions = ['Python 3.8']

[gpshead]

filing this issue to track #9170

[gpshead]

Confirming the microoptimization here with a non-debug (opt) build:

~/oss/cpython$ sre-before/python -m timeit -s "import re; s = (b'~' * 1000000); f = re.compile(b'\s\w\d').search" "f(s)"
20 loops, best of 5: 11 msec per loop
~/oss/cpython$ sre-after/python -m timeit -s "import re; s = (b'~' * 1000000); f = re.compile(b'\s\w\d').search" "f(s)"
20 loops, best of 5: 10.1 msec per loop

Those results are consistent across reruns.

[miss-islington]

New changeset ec014a1 by Miss Islington (bot) (Sergey Fedoseev) in branch 'master':
bpo-34636: Use fast path for more chars in SRE category macros. (GH-9170)
ec014a1