Re: [Python-Dev] Is this safe enough? Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: _Py_Identifier are always ASCII strings

On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:57:46 +0100 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> wrote:

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-        id->object = PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8Stateful(id->string, -                                                  strlen(id->string), -                                                  NULL, NULL); +        id->object = unicode_fromascii((unsigned char*)id->string, +                                       strlen(id->string));

This is just an optimization.

Is the optimization even worthwhile? This code is typically called once for every static string. Regards Antoine.