[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Thu Jun 5 21:55:54 CEST 2014

Le 04/06/2014 02:51, Chris Angelico a écrit :

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

It would. The downsides of a UTF-8 representation would be slower iteration and much slower (O(N)) indexing/slicing.

There's no reason for iteration to be slower. Slicing would get O(slice offset + slice size) instead of O(slice size).

Regards

Antoine.

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