[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 23 10:55:40 CEST 2011


- “The UTF-8 decoding fast path for ASCII only characters was removed and replaced with a memcpy if the entire string is ASCII.” The fast path would still be useful for mostly-ASCII strings, which are extremely common (unless UTF-8 has become a no-op?).

Is it really extremely common to have strings that are mostly-ASCII but not completely ASCII? I would agree that pure ASCII strings are extremely common.

Regards, Martin



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