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by Guthur 1998 days ago
For some cases, and the picture often changes.

We were using pypy because it was better for our use case at one point but then later on we retested cpython and found the picture had changed.

We believe this was due to significant improvements in the regex engine for cpython over the period, but could also be due to our code base changing.

The point being it is not a given that pypy is faster.