Message 199451 - Python tracker

Message199451

Author	pitrou
Recipients	barry, christian.heimes, kristjan.jonsson, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2013-10-11.09:15:13
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Message-id	<1381482914.09.0.241333065996.issue19219@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Why adding ASCII strings, whereas you can add Latin1 (UCS1, U+0000-U+00FF) > strings? Reasons: - most strings in pyc files are pure ASCII (it's like 99% in the stdlib) - unmarshalling ASCII strings is faster: you can pass 127 to PyUnicode_New without scanning for non-ASCII chars The aim here is to optimize the common cases. There is no reason to further complicate the code for rare cases.

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> Why adding ASCII strings, whereas you can add Latin1 (UCS1, U+0000-U+00FF)
> strings?

Reasons:
- most strings in pyc files are pure ASCII (it's like 99% in the stdlib)
- unmarshalling ASCII strings is faster: you can pass 127 to PyUnicode_New without scanning for non-ASCII chars

The aim here is to optimize the common cases. There is no reason to further complicate the code for rare cases.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-10-11 09:15:14	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, barry, kristjan.jonsson, vstinner, christian.heimes
2013-10-11 09:15:14	pitrou	set	messageid: <1381482914.09.0.241333065996.issue19219@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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