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eendebakpt
opened on Nov 1, 2026

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The pyperformance regex_compile benchmark is 1.17x slower on main than on 3.15 (1.19x on the free-threaded build). Bisecting points at the gh-152100 series (GH-152153, GH-152154, GH-152214). The regression is also visible on regex_compile on speed.python.org

The reason is redundant work in the case that no fusable constructs are present. Claude has several suggestions, one is in https://github.com/eendebakpt/cpython/tree/re-optimizer-skip-pass.

@serhiy-storchaka

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

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Linux

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    stdlibStandard Library Python modules in the Lib/ directory
    on Nov 1, 2026
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