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

[Greg Ewing]

Tres Seaver wrote:

> 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

Would there be any sanity in having an option to compile
Python with UTF-8 as the internal string representation?

-- 
Greg