RE Module Performance

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:09:11 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:

> And do not forget, in a pure utf coding scheme, your char or a char will
> *never* be larger than 4 bytes.
> 
>>>> sys.getsizeof('a')
> 26
>>>> sys.getsizeof('\U000101000')
> 48

Neither character above is larger than 4 bytes. You forgot to deduct the 
size of the object header. Python is a high-level object-oriented 
language, if you care about minimizing every possible byte, you should 
use a low-level language like C. Then you can give every character 21 
bits, and be happy that you don't waste even one bit.


-- 
Steven