On 2013-10-29 08:38, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> import timeit
> >>> timeit.timeit("a = 'hundred'; 'x' in a")
> 0.12621293837694095
> >>> timeit.timeit("a = 'hundreij'; 'x' in a")
> 0.26411553466961735
That reads to me as "If things were purely UCS4 internally, Python
would normally take 0.264... seconds to execute this test, but core
devs managed to optimize a particular (lower 127 ASCII characters
only) case so that it runs in less than half the time."
Is this not what you intended to demonstrate? 'cuz that sounds
like a pretty awesome optimization to me.
-tkc
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