[Distutils] SOABI for Unicode ABI on 2.x (was: wheel 0.27.0 released)

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/06/2016 05:35 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> And people who run build Python 2.7 with './configure && make && make
> install'
> 
> Why does upstream Python default to UCS-2 builds on Linux anyway?

I don't recall if it had any bearing on the choice of default, but
Long-running processes with large quantities of mostly-8-bit-compatible
text strings in RAM (Zope, nearly any other Eurocentric webapp) need
measurably less memory with UCS-2.



Tres.
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