On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > The benefit of this is that most strings will use 1/2 or 1/4 of the memory > that they otherwise would need, which gives an impressive memory saving. > That leads to demonstrable speed-ups in real-world code, however it is > possible to find artificial benchmarks that experience a slowdown compared > to Python 3.2.
It's also possible to find a number of situations in which a narrow build of 3.2 was faster than 3.3, due to the buggy handling of surrogates. I've no idea whether jmf is still complaining against that basis or not, as I don't see his posts. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
