[Cython] [cython] Initial startswith / endswith optimization (#35)

[John Ehresman]

On 5/25/11 3:51 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> I'm glad you're thinking about this question, some explanation of the
> various string types is at
> http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/stringliterals
>
> Probably the way to do this is have one optimization for bytes, one
> for unicode, and then have a third type for str that dispatches to the
> one or the other depending on the python version (using #define).

I think this means that the current unicode optimizations aren't used 
when variables are declared as str and a python 3 runtime is used. 
Should all unicode optimizations support str eventually?

Thanks,

John