[Python-3000] PyUnicodeObject implementation

[Antoine Pitrou]

Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kloth <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I don't know if this is too late to do before the final release, but shouldn't 
> the implementation of PyUnicodeObject be updated to match the much more 
> efficient old PyStringObject layout?  I mean eliminating the double malloc 
> that is currently required for each unicode string.

I have already written such a patch some months ago, you can find it here:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1943

You will perhaps need to adapt the patch a bit in order for it to work properly
with the current py3k branch.

Also note that Marc-André Lemburg (one of the authors of the unicode
implementation) is opposed to that change. See the discussion in the bug tracker
issue for the details.

Regards

Antoine.