The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 08:59:42 EDT 2016


On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:34 PM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> For Python I would have used a table of 0..255 functions, indexed by the
> ord() code of each character. So all 52 letter codes map to the same
> name-handling function. (No Dict is needed at this point.)
>

Once again, you forget that there are not 256 characters - there are
1114112. (Give or take.)

ChrisA



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