[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

[Tres Seaver]

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Guido van Rossum wrote:

> But you'd still have to validate it, right? You wouldn't want to go on
> using what you thought was wrapped UTF-8 if it wasn't actually valid
> UTF-8 (or you'd be worse off than in Python 2). So you're really just
> worried about space consumption. I'd like to see a lot of hard memory
> profiling data before I got overly worried about that.

I do know for a fact that using a UCS2-compiled Python instead of the
system's UCS4-compiled Python leads to measurable, noticable drop in
memory consumption of long-running webserver processes using Unicode
(Zope, repoze.bfg, etc).  We routinely build Python from source for
deployments precisely because of this fact (in part -- the absurd
choices made by packagers to exclude crucial bits on various pltaforms
is the other part).


Tres.
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