Flexible string representation, unicode, typography, ...

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:26:02 +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

> 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.

But it is a good place to start, so you can develop unicode benchmarks.


-- 
Steven