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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:04:10 +1000
Subject: Re: Flexible string representation, unicode, typography, ...
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com> wrote:
> Therefore, I think he is saying that he would have preferred that python
> standardise on 4-byte characters, on the grounds that the saving in memory
> does not justify the performance overhead.

If that's indeed the argument, then at least it's something to argue.
What gets difficult is when people complain about the expansion from a
2-byte narrow build to the current 1/2/4-byte representation, which
will indeed use more memory if there are a small number of >0xFFFF
codepoints. But there's a correctness difference there.

ChrisA