Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Here is a new patch with tests.
> I wonder whether it wouldn't be better to preallocate > a Unicode object with size of e.g. size/4 + 16 and > then resize the object as necessary in case a surrogate > pair needs to be created (won't happen that often in > practice). > > The extra scan for pairs can take long depending on > how much data you have to decode and likely doesn't > go down well with CPU caches. Perhaps, but I think this should measured and be the target of a separate issue. We're in rc phase and we should probably minimize potential disruption. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17598/utf32-2.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8941> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
