Flexible string representation, unicode, typography, ...

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 03.09.12 04:42, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> If you are *seriously* interested in debugging why string code is slower
> for you, you can start by running the full suite of Python string
> benchmarks: see the stringbench benchmark in the Tools directory of
> source installations, or see here:
>
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/8ff2f4634ed8/Tools/stringbench

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Tools/stringbench

However, stringbench is not good tool to measure the effectiveness of 
new string representation, because it focuses mainly on ASCII strings 
and comparing strings with bytes.