[Python-Dev] str.count is slow

[martin at v.loewis.de]

Zitat von Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>:

> it's about time that someone sat down and merged the string and unicode
> implementations into a single "stringlib" code base (see the SRE sources for
> an efficient way to do this in plain C). [1]
[...]
> 1) anyone want me to start working on this ?

This would be a waste of time: In Python 3, the string type will be
gone (or, rather, the unicode type, depending on the point of view).

Regards,
Martin