title: whose regex is faster? python or perl
body: <p>I saw in the wiki page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines</a></p>
  
  <p>that python use non-recursive implementation as grep and sed while perl one uses the simple cursive impl. does this indicate that python's regex performance is faster than perl's? </p>