Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:17:28 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:

> Probably, but it still has to scan the body of the string. It'd not be
> too bad if it's all astral, but if it's all BMP, it has to scan the
> whole string. In the max() case, it has to scan the whole string anyway,
> as there's no other way to determine the maximum. I'm thinking here of
> this function:
> 
> http://pike.lysator.liu.se/generated/manual/modref/ex/7.2_3A_3A/String/
width.html
> 
> It's implemented as a simple lookup into the header. (Pike strings, like
> PEP 393 strings, are stored in the most compact way possible - 1, 2, or
> 4 bytes per character - with a conceptually similar header structure.)
> Is this something that would be worth having available? Should I post an
> issue about it?

I'm not really sure why I would want to know, apart from pure 
intellectual curiosity, but sure, post a feature request. Be sure to 
mention that Pike supports this feature.



-- 
Steven