[XML-SIG] Re: Re: Re: cElementTree 0.8 (january 11, 2005)

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:43:04AM +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >  Seriously, with respect to performances one of the trouble I have seen when
> > doing a bit of profiling is that interning strings, i.e. the process of
> > taking string coming from C and turning them into Python string objects,
> > to be extremely costly, I don't know if it's the hash function or the way
> > the string hash works but it was one of the biggest cost when I tried
> > (with python 2.3 or 2.2 I can't remember precisely when it was).
> 
> in python, conversion and interning and hash calculations are three different
> things, so I'm not sure what your problem really was.  but I'm curious. can
> you elaborate?

  You have a python function calling a native function. That function returns
a string. That C string is translated to a Python string by the wrapper 
using PyString_FromString(). That operation seems to be extremely expensive.

Daniel

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