Re: How to waste computer memory?

From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: How to waste computer memory?
Date	2016-03-18 01:00 -0600
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the event that i change my mind about Unicode, and/or for
> the sake of others, who may want to know, please provide a
> list of languages that *YOU* think handle Unicode better than
> Python, starting with the best first. Thanks.

jmf has been asked this before, and as I recall he seems to feel that
UTF-8 should be used for all purposes, ignoring the limitations of
that encoding such as that indexing becomes a O(n) operation. He has
pointed at Go as an example of a language wherein Unicode "just
works", although I think that others do not necessarily agree [1].

He also seems to have a strange notion of the meaning of the word
"buggy". He frequently uses that word to describe the Python 3.3
Unicode implementation, although he can't seem to demonstrate any
actual bugs. Instead, he points at cherry-picked micro-benchmarks that
show Python's old "narrow" Unicode implementation (which did not
properly support SMP characters, unlike the "wide" implementation
which was a much greater memory hog than the version he's now
complaining about) outperforming the PEP-393 implementation while
completely ignoring any real-world benchmarks.

[1] https://coderwall.com/p/k7zvyg/dealing-with-unicode-in-go

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How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-17 07:34 -0700
  Re: How to waste computer memory? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 12:21 -0700
    Re: How to waste computer memory? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-17 20:31 +0000
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 07:42 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 21:08 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 08:13 +1100
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-17 14:30 -0700
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-17 22:32 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-17 22:42 +0000
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-17 23:11 +0200
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 08:17 +1100
          Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-17 21:26 +0000
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-17 22:38 +0000
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 10:02 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-03-17 21:37 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-03-17 21:43 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2016-03-17 20:51 -0400
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 18:47 -0700
            Re: How to waste computer memory? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-18 10:44 +0000
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2016-03-18 10:11 -0400
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-19 13:50 +0000
    Re: How to waste computer memory? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 01:00 -0600
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-03-18 10:26 +0200
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-18 17:26 +0200
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 03:58 +1100
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-18 23:02 +0200
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-18 23:28 +0200
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 00:03 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 09:49 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 10:22 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 11:40 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 19:38 +1100
            Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 00:14 -0700
              Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 02:17 -0700
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 19:14 +1100
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 11:31 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 03:40 -0700
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 13:07 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-19 12:24 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 14:43 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 01:18 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-19 15:14 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-19 15:20 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 22:32 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 14:42 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 01:39 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 16:56 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 07:01 -0700
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 01:56 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 17:02 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 02:47 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 18:12 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 16:01 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 23:20 -0700
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 22:06 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 22:22 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 23:14 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 23:27 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-20 14:55 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-20 17:36 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-03-20 14:17 -0400
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-20 09:30 +0200
      Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 03:50 -0700
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-18 22:46 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-18 22:58 +1100
          Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 12:53 -0700
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 23:37 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 07:57 -0600
    Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 03:44 +1100
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-03-18 20:22 +0200
        Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 13:03 -0700
  Re: How to waste computer memory? sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 11:18 -0700

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