[issue23119] Remove unicode specialization from set objects

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

Timings for no_special_hash.diff:

$ ~/cpython/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={"html"}' '"html" in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0315 usec per loop
$ ~/nounicode/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={"html"}' '"html" in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0336 usec per loop
$ ~/cpython/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={"html"}' '"html" in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0316 usec per loop
$ ~/nounicode/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={"html"}' '"html" in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0336 usec per loop

$ ~/cpython/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={1}' '1 in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0331 usec per loop
$ ~/nounicode/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={1}' '1 in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0328 usec per loop
$ ~/cpython/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={1}' '1 in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0332 usec per loop
$ ~/nounicode/python.exe -m timeit -r7 -s 's={1}' '1 in s'
10000000 loops, best of 7: 0.0328 usec per loop

The unicode specialization in set_add, set_discard, and set_contains
benefits unicode lookups by 7% but impairs other lookups by 1%.

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