Peter Lovett

_The virtue of being a lazy programmer, understanding lazy evaluation, and understanding lazy imports (3.15)_ Your boss wants your program to "run faster". But performance can be a tricky thing. Sometimes we can make a choice of _when_ the program will be slow. This talk will explore the...

Greedy, Lazy or Possessive? Improving regex performance with atomic grouping, possessive quantifiers and more! Regex can be a powerful fuzzy text processing tool. But large data starts to show how regex can be slow. This talk will examine some of the reasons why regex can be slow, and what can...