[issue19513] Use PyUnicodeWriter instead of PyAccu in repr(tuple) and repr(list)

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

I checked in list_repr_writer-2.patch, thanks Serhiy for your review.

And now the patch for repr(tuple).

Result of bench_tuple_repr.py:


Common platform:
CFLAGS: -Wno-unused-result -Werror=declaration-after-statement -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
Bits: int=32, long=64, long long=64, size_t=64, void*=64
Platform: Linux-3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-18-Spherical_Cow
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Timer info: namespace(adjustable=False, implementation='clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)', monotonic=True, resolution=1e-09)
Timer: time.perf_counter
Python unicode implementation: PEP 393

Platform of campaign pyaccu:
SCM: hg revision=fc7ceb001eec tag=tip branch=default date="2013-11-18 21:11 +0100"
Timer precision: 41 ns
Date: 2013-11-18 21:29:45
Python version: 3.4.0a4+ (default:fc7ceb001eec, Nov 18 2013, 21:29:41) [GCC 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8)]

Platform of campaign writer:
SCM: hg revision=fc7ceb001eec+ tag=tip branch=default date="2013-11-18 21:11 +0100"
Timer precision: 39 ns
Date: 2013-11-18 21:28:53
Python version: 3.4.0a4+ (default:fc7ceb001eec+, Nov 18 2013, 21:28:24) [GCC 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8)]

------------------------------+-------------+---------------
Tests                         |      pyaccu |         writer
------------------------------+-------------+---------------
tuple("a")                    |  355 ns (*) |  318 ns (-11%)
tuple("abc")                  |  492 ns (*) |         481 ns
("a",)*(100)                  |  8.1 us (*) |  7.39 us (-9%)
("abc",)*(100)                | 8.16 us (*) |  7.51 us (-8%)
("a" * 100,)*(100)            | 35.2 us (*) |        36.3 us
("a",)*(10**6)                |   88 ms (*) | 75.9 ms (-14%)
("abc",)*(10**6)              | 88.5 ms (*) | 75.3 ms (-15%)
("a" * 100,)*(10**5)          | 44.8 ms (*) | 34.9 ms (-22%)
tuple(range(10**6))           |  104 ms (*) | 92.5 ms (-11%)
tuple(map(str, range(10**6))) |  105 ms (*) | 90.5 ms (-14%)
------------------------------+-------------+---------------
Total                         |  431 ms (*) |  369 ms (-14%)
------------------------------+-------------+---------------

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32692/tuple_repr_writer.patch

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