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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 |
| Date | 2014-06-11 00:16 +0100 |
| References | <ldJlv.251690$CE7.108063@fx17.am4> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.10987.1402442131.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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". -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
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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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