[Python-Dev] please consider changing --enable-unicode default to ucs4 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Oct 7 20:25:19 CEST 2009


Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog gmail.com> writes:

I accidentally sent this letter just to MAL when I intended it to python-dev. Please read it, as it explains why the issue I'm raising is not just the "we should switch to ucs4 because it is better" issue that was previously settled by GvR.

For what it's worth, with stringbench under py3k, an UCS2 build is roughly 8% faster than an UCS4 build (190 s. total against 206 s.).



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