[issue14249] unicodeobject.c: aliasing warnings

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org> added the comment:

On 64-bit Linux with gcc-4.4 I get:

Unpatched:

$ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = (" " * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 4.1 usec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = ("\u263A" * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 5.87 usec per loop

2c514c382a2a:

$ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = (" " * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 3.68 usec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = ("\u263A" * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 4.72 usec per loop

utf16_decoder_shift_3.patch:

$ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = (" " * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.23 usec per loop
$ ./python -m timeit -s 'import codecs; d = codecs.utf_16_be_decode; x = ("\u263A" * 1000).encode("utf-16be")' 'd(x)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 3.11 usec per loop

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