Patch 100899 [Unicode compression] (was RE: [Python-Dev] 2.0 Release Plans) (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:59:20 +0200

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:32:20PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

[Jeremy Hylton] > I would like to see some compression in the release, but agree that it > is not an essential optimization. People have talked about it for a > couple of months, and we haven't found someone to work on it because > at various times pirx and /F said they were working on it. > > If we don't hear from /F by tomorrow promising he will finish it before > the beta release, let's postpone it.

There was an awful lot of whining about the size increase without this optimization, and the current situation violates the "no compiler warnings!" rule too (at least under MSVC 6).

For the record, you can't compile unicodedatabase.c with g++ because of it's size: g++ complains that the switch is too large to compile. Under gcc it compiles, but only by trying really really hard, and I don't know how it performs under other versions of gcc (in particular more heavily optimizing ones -- might run into other limits in those situations.)

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