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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:52:49 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii
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On 2013-10-29 08:38, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> import timeit
> >>> timeit.timeit("a =3D 'hundred'; 'x' in a") =20
> 0.12621293837694095
> >>> timeit.timeit("a =3D 'hundre=C4=B3'; 'x' in a") =20
> 0.26411553466961735

That reads to me as "If things were purely UCS4 internally, Python
would normally take 0.264... seconds to execute this test, but core
devs managed to optimize a particular (lower 127 ASCII characters
only) case so that it runs in less than half the time."

Is this not what you intended to demonstrate?  'cuz that sounds
like a pretty awesome optimization to me.

-tkc