[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Serhiy Storchaka writes:

 > It would be interesting to collect a statistic about how many indexing 
 > operations happened during the life of a string in typical (Micro)Python 
 > program.

Probably irrelevant (I doubt anybody is going to be writing
programmers' editors in MicroPython), but by far the most frequently
called functions in XEmacs are byte_to_char_index and its inverse.