RE Module Performance

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> if you care about minimizing every possible byte, you should
> use a low-level language like C. Then you can give every character 21
> bits, and be happy that you don't waste even one bit.

Could go better! Since not every character has been assigned, and some
are specifically banned (eg U+FFFE and U+D800-U+DFFF), you could cut
them out of your representation system and save memory!

ChrisA