flaming vs accuracy [was Re: Performance of int/long in Python 3]
Neil Hodgson
nhodgson at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 28 08:11:55 EDT 2013
Ian Foote:
> Specifically, indexing a variable-length encoding like utf-8 is not as
> efficient as indexing a fixed-length encoding.
Many common string operations do not require indexing by character
which reduces the impact of this inefficiency. UTF-8 seems like a
reasonable choice for an internal representation to me. One benefit of
UTF-8 over Python's flexible representation is that it is, on average,
more compact over a wide set of samples.
Neil
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