[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Victor Stinner]

Le mardi 23 août 2011 00:14:40, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:58:51 -0400
> 
> Torsten Becker <torsten.becker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have implemented an initial version of PEP 393 -- "Flexible String
> > Representation" as part of my Google Summer of Code project.  My patch
> > is hosted as a repository on bitbucket [1] and I created a related
> > issue on the bug tracker [2].  I posted documentation for the current
> > state of the development in the wiki [3].
> 
> A couple of minor comments:
> 
> - “The UTF-8 decoding fast path for ASCII only characters was removed
>   and replaced with a memcpy if the entire string is ASCII.”
>   The fast path would still be useful for mostly-ASCII strings, which
>   are extremely common (unless UTF-8 has become a no-op?).

I posted a patch to re-add it:
http://bugs.python.org/issue12819#msg142867

Victor