Article on the future of Python

[Paul Rubin]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> When you compare against a wide build, semantics of 3.2 and 3.3 are
> identical, and then - and ONLY then - can you sanely compare
> performance. And 3.3 stacks up much better.

I like to have seen real world benchmarks against a pure UTF-8
implementation.  That means O(n) access to the n'th character of a
string which could theoretically slow some programs down terribly, but I
wonder how often that actually matters in ways that can't easily be
worked around.