Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 codecs need to be as fast as possible > in Python to not create performance problems when converting > between platform Unicode data and the internal formats > used in Python.
"As fast as possible" is a platonic dream. They only need to be fast enough not to be bottlenecks. If you know of a *Python* workload where UTF-16 decoding is the bottleneck, I'd like to know about it :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12892> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
