Patch 100899 [Unicode compression] (was RE: [Python-Dev] 2.0 Release Plans)

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:32:20PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Jeremy Hylton]
> > I would like to see some compression in the release, but agree that it
> > is not an essential optimization.  People have talked about it for a
> > couple of months, and we haven't found someone to work on it because
> > at various times pirx and /F said they were working on it.
> >
> > If we don't hear from /F by tomorrow promising he will finish it before
> > the beta release, let's postpone it.

> There was an *awful* lot of whining about the size increase without this
> optimization, and the current situation violates the "no compiler warnings!"
> rule too (at least under MSVC 6).

For the record, you can't compile unicodedatabase.c with g++ because of it's
size: g++ complains that the switch is too large to compile. Under gcc it
compiles, but only by trying really really hard, and I don't know how it
performs under other versions of gcc (in particular more heavily optimizing
ones -- might run into other limits in those situations.)

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