[Python-3000] Making more effective use of slice objects in Py3k (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Aug 28 18:48:52 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

(e.g. you don't seem to appreciate the savings due to a string object header and its data being consecutive in memory).

footnote: note that the Unicode string type still doesn't do that (my original implementation did support string views, and nobody's ever gotten around to fully rip it out), so if anyone wants to benchmark things related to this specific feature, comparing unicode strings with 8-bit strings could be someone useful.

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