A reply for rusi (FSR)

[jmfauth]

As a reply to rusi's comment:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a7689b158fdca29e#

>From string creation to the itertools usage. A medley. Some timings.

Important:
The real/absolute values of these experiments are not important. I do
not care and I'm not complaining at all.

These values are expected, I expected such values and they are only
confirming (*FOR ME*) my understanding of the coding of the characters
(and Unicode).

#~ py323                                      py330

#~ test   1:         0.015357737412819        0.019290216142579
#~ test   2:         0.015698801667198        0.020386269052436
#~ test   3:         0.015613338684288        0.018769561472500
#~ test   4:         0.023235297708529        0.032253414679390
#~ test   5:         0.023327062109534        0.029621391108935
#~ test   6:         1.119958127076760        1.095467665651482
#~ test   7:         0.420158472788311        0.565518010043673
#~ test   8:         0.649444234615974        1.061556978013171
#~ test   9:         0.712335144072079        1.211614222458175
#~ test  10:         0.704622996001357        1.160909074081441
#~ test  11:         0.614674584923621        1.053985430333688
#~ test  12:         0.660336235792764        1.059443246081010
#~ test  13:         4.821435927771570        5.795325214218677
#~ test  14:         0.494012668213403        0.729330462512273
#~ test  15:         0.504894429585788        0.879966255906103
#~ test  16:         0.693093370081103        1.132884304782264
#~ test  17:         0.749076743789461        3.013804437852462
#~ test  18:         7.467055989281286       13.387841650089342
#~ test  19:         7.581776062566778       13.593412812594643
#~ test  20:         9.477877493343140       15.235388291413805
#~ test  21:         0.022614608026196        0.020984116094176
#~ test  22:         6.685022041178975       12.687538276191944
#~ test  23:         6.946794763994170       12.986701250949636
#~ test  24:         0.097796827314760        0.156285014715777
#~ test  25:         0.024915807146677        0.034190706904894
#~ test  26:         0.024996544066013        0.032191582014335
#~ test  27:         0.000693943667684        0.001315421027272
#~ test  28:         0.000679765476967        0.001305968900141
#~ test  29:         0.001614344548152        0.025543979763000
#~ test  30:         0.000204008410812        0.000286714523313
#~ test  31:         0.000213460537964        0.000301286552656
#~ test  32:         0.000204008410819        0.000291440586878
#~ test  33:         0.249692904327539        0.497374474766957
#~ test  34:         0.248750448483740        0.513947598194790
#~ test  35:         0.099810130396032        0.249129715085319

jmf