Is Unicode support so hard...

[Mark Lawrence]

On 21/04/2013 10:02, Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
> On 4/20/2013 9:37 PM, rusi wrote:
>
>> I believe that the recent correction in unicode performance followed
>> jmf's grumbles
>
> No, the correction followed upon his accurate report of a regression,
> last August, which was unfortunately mixed in with grumbles and
> inaccurate claims. Others separated out and verified the accurate
> report. I reported it to pydev and enquired as to its necessity, I
> believe Mark opened the tracker issue, and the two people who worked on
> optimizing 3.3 a year ago fairly quickly came up with two different
> patches. The several month delay after was a matter of testing and
> picking the best approach.
>
>

I'd again like to point out that all I did was raise the issue.  It was 
based on data provided by Steven D'Aprano and confirmed by Serhiy Storchaka.

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