[Python-3000] Making more effective use of slice objects in Py3k

[Guido van Rossum]

Josiah (and other supporters of string views),

You seem to be utterly convinced of the superior performance of your
proposal without having done any measurements.

You appear to have a rather naive view on what makes code execute fast
or slow (e.g. you don't seem to appreciate the savings due to a string
object header and its data being consecutive in memory).

Unless you have serious benchmark data (for realistic Python code) I
can't continue to participate in this discussion, where you have said
nothing new in many posts.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)