Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment: On 64-bit Linux with gcc-4.4 I get:
Unpatched: $ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = (" " * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)' 100000 loops, best of 3: 4.1 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = ("\u263A" * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)' 100000 loops, best of 3: 5.87 usec per loop 2c514c382a2a: $ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = (" " * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)' 100000 loops, best of 3: 3.68 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = ("\u263A" * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)' 100000 loops, best of 3: 4.72 usec per loop utf16_decoder_shift_3.patch: $ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = (" " * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)' 100000 loops, best of 3: 2.23 usec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = ("\u263A" * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)' 100000 loops, best of 3: 3.11 usec per loop ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14249> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com