[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

[Stefan Behnel]

Greg Ewing, 26.06.2010 09:58:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
>
>> I do know for a fact that using a UCS2-compiled Python instead of the
>> system's UCS4-compiled Python leads to measurable, noticable drop in
>> memory consumption of long-running webserver processes using Unicode
>
> Would there be any sanity in having an option to compile
> Python with UTF-8 as the internal string representation?

It would break Py_UNICODE, because the internal size of a unicode character 
would no longer be fixed.

Stefan