[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Stefan Behnel]

"Martin v. Löwis", 23.08.2011 10:55:
>> - “The UTF-8 decoding fast path for ASCII only characters was removed
>>    and replaced with a memcpy if the entire string is ASCII.”
>>    The fast path would still be useful for mostly-ASCII strings, which
>>    are extremely common (unless UTF-8 has become a no-op?).
>
> Is it really extremely common to have strings that are mostly-ASCII but
> not completely ASCII?

Maybe not as "extremely common" as pure ASCII strings, but at least for 
western European languages, "mostly ASCII" strings are very common indeed.

Stefan