June 26, 2010
4:41 p.m.
Greg Ewing, 26.06.2010 09:58:
Tres Seaver wrote:
I do know for a fact that using a UCS2-compiled Python instead of the system's UCS4-compiled Python leads to measurable, noticable drop in memory consumption of long-running webserver processes using Unicode
Would there be any sanity in having an option to compile Python with UTF-8 as the internal string representation?
It would break Py_UNICODE, because the internal size of a unicode character would no longer be fixed. Stefan