Guido van Rossum wrote: > I also notice that _compile() is needlessly written as a varargs > function -- all its uses pass it exactly two arguments. that's because the function uses [1] the argument tuple as the cache key, and I wanted to make the "cache hit" path as fast as possible. (but that was back in the 1.6 days; things have changed a lot since then, so maybe someone should benchmark some alternative ways to do this under 2.4...) </F> 1) well, it used to use it. the code was modified slightly in 2.3 to prepend the type of the pattern string; not sure why, since 8-bit and unicode patterns should be equivalent.
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