On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 09:54:20PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 12/19/2012 9:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From what I've been able to discern, [jmf's] actual complaint about PEP > >>393 stems from misguided moral concerns. With PEP-393, strings that > >>can be fully represented in Latin-1 can be stored in half the space > >>(ignoring fixed overhead) compared to strings containing at least one > >>non-Latin-1 character. jmf thinks this optimization is unfair to > >>non-English users and immoral; he wants Latin-1 strings to be treated > >>exactly like non-Latin-1 strings (I don't think he actually cares > >>about non-BMP strings at all; if narrow-build Unicode is good enough > >>for him, then it must be good enough for everybody). > > > >Not entirely; most of his complaints are based on performance (speed > >and/or memory) of 3.3 compared to a narrow build of 3.2, using silly > >edge cases to prove how much worse 3.3 is, while utterly ignoring the > >fact that, in those self-same edge cases, 3.2 is buggy. > > And the fact that stringbench.py is overall about as fast with 3.3 > as with 3.2 *on the same Windows 7 machine* (which uses narrow build > in 3.2), and that unicode operations are not far from bytes > operations when the same thing can be done with both. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy
Really, why should we be so obsessed with speed anyways? Isn't improving the language and fixing bugs far more important? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
