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- The default size of the re module's compiled regular expression cache has been
increased from 100 to 500 and the cache replacement policy has changed from
- simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to forgetting the least recently
- used cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
+ simply clearing the entire cache on overflow to randomly forgetting 20% of the
+ existing cached compiled regular expressions. This is a performance win for
applications that use a lot of regular expressions and limits the impact of
the performance hit anytime the cache is exceeded.