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From: "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com>
To: "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org>
Subject: RE: RE Module Performance
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:30:51 +0000
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:07 AM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let start with a simple string \textemdash or \texttendash
> >
> >>>> sys.getsizeof('-')
> > 40
> >>>> sys.getsizeof('a')
> > 26
> 
> Most of the cost is in those two apostrophes, look:
> 
> >>> sys.getsizeof('a')
> 26
> >>> sys.getsizeof(a)
> 8
> 
> Okay, that's slightly unfair (bonus points: figure out what I did to
> make this work; there are at least two right answers) but still, look
> at what an empty string costs:

I like bonus points. :)
>>> a =3D None 
>>> sys.getsizeof(a)
8

Not sure what the other right answer is...booleans take 12 bytes (on 2.6)

> 
> >>> sys.getsizeof('')
> 25
> 
> Or look at the difference between one of these characters and two:
> 
> >>> sys.getsizeof('aa')-sys.getsizeof('a')
> 1
> >>> sys.getsizeof('--')-sys.getsizeof('-')
> 2
> 
> That's what the characters really cost. The overhead is fixed. It is,
> in fact, almost completely insignificant. The storage requirement for
> a non-ASCII, BMP-only string converges to two bytes per character.
> 
> ChrisA
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Ramit



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