RE Module Performance
wxjmfauth at gmail.com
wxjmfauth at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 16:15:23 EDT 2013
Le mercredi 31 juillet 2013 07:45:18 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:09:11 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
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> > And do not forget, in a pure utf coding scheme, your char or a char will
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> > *never* be larger than 4 bytes.
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> >>>> sys.getsizeof('a')
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> > 26
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> >>>> sys.getsizeof('\U000101000')
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> > 48
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> Neither character above is larger than 4 bytes. You forgot to deduct the
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> size of the object header. Python is a high-level object-oriented
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> language, if you care about minimizing every possible byte, you should
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> use a low-level language like C. Then you can give every character 21
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> bits, and be happy that you don't waste even one bit.
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> --
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> Steven
... char never consumes or requires more than 4 bytes ...
jmf
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