[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> This optimization was done when trying to improve the speed of text I/O.

So what speedup did it achieve, for the kind of data you talked about?

> Do you have three copies of the UTF-8 decoder already, or do you a use a
> stringlib-like approach?

It's a single implementation - see for yourself.

Regards,
Martin