[issue31484] Cache single-character strings outside of the Latin1 range

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Judging by the numbers, this optimization does not sound worth the hassle.  It is quite rare to iterate over all characters in a long text while doing so little work with them that the cost of iteration is significant.

By the way:

> Sorry for using the word hieroglyphs for Chinese characters. I didn't know how they are named in English.

I think the word you were looking for is "ideogram".

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