OP here. I went ahead and tried using the slicing instead of startswith() a few places, and moving the regexes out to module variables. (thanks for the suggestions!) It did speed up, but just a little bit (from ~32 secs to ~31 secs).
I may try changing the "not doneParsingEvent" checks into something that uses "continue", I'd imagine that would probably help. (although the Rust code is structured the same way) Another thing I've considered is looking at the data and figuring out which cases are more common and checking for those first...
I may try changing the "not doneParsingEvent" checks into something that uses "continue", I'd imagine that would probably help. (although the Rust code is structured the same way) Another thing I've considered is looking at the data and figuring out which cases are more common and checking for those first...
Another thing I considered is