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Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3

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On 10/06/2014 20:43, alister wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:27:26 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
>

[snip the garbage]

>>
>> jmf
>
> Your error reports always seem to resolve around benchmarks despite speed
> not being one of Pythons prime objectives
>
> Computers store data using bytes
> ASCII Characters can be used storing a single byte
> Unicode code-points cannot be stored in a single byte
> therefore Unicode will always be inherently slower than ASCII
>
> implementation details mean that some Unicode characters may be handled
> more efficiently than others, why is this wrong?
> why should all Unicode operations be equally slow?
>

I'd like to dedicate a song to jmf.  From the "Canterbury Sound" band 
Caravan, the album "The Battle Of Hastings", the song title "Liar".

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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

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Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-06-10 19:43 +0000
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-06-11 08:29 +1000
    Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-06-11 08:14 +0000
      Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-06-11 21:37 +1000
      Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-06-11 05:30 -0700
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-11 00:16 +0100
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-06-10 16:29 -0700
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-11 00:04 +0000
    Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-06-11 22:50 -0700
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-06-10 16:49 -0700
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-11 02:01 +0100
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-06-11 00:40 -0700
  Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-06-11 09:38 -0600
    Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-06-11 11:12 -0700

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