Message 77374 - Python tracker

Message77374

Author	pitrou
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2008-12-08.23:58:53
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In-reply-to	<1228780369.41.0.499582675724.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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I wrote: > IMO PyUnicode_Compare() should be replaced by a hypothetical > PyObject_RichCompare(), which allows to take shortcuts when comparing > strings of different length and a Py_EQ or Py_NE comparison is requested. ... and I didn't even remember that PyUnicode_RichCompare() already exists. So let my proposal be to enable those optimizations inside the existing PyUnicode_RichCompare(), and dump PyUnicode_Compare().

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I wrote:
> IMO PyUnicode_Compare() should be replaced by a hypothetical
> PyObject_RichCompare(), which allows to take shortcuts when comparing
> strings of different length and a Py_EQ or Py_NE comparison is requested.

... and I didn't even remember that PyUnicode_RichCompare() already
exists. So let my proposal be to enable those optimizations inside the
existing PyUnicode_RichCompare(), and dump PyUnicode_Compare().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-12-08 23:58:56	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson
2008-12-08 23:58:53	pitrou	link	issue1717 messages
2008-12-08 23:58:53	pitrou	create