String performance regression from python 3.2 to 3.3

[Andriy Kornatskyy]

$ python3.2
Python 3.2.3 (default, Jun 25 2012, 22:55:05) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from timeit import repeat
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\u0034'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.2566258907318115, 0.14485502243041992, 0.14464998245239258]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.25584888458251953, 0.1340939998626709, 0.1338820457458496]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.2571289539337158, 0.13403892517089844, 0.13388800621032715]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.5022759437561035, 0.3970041275024414, 0.3764481544494629]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.5213770866394043, 0.38585615158081055, 0.40251588821411133]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\U00012345sdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.768744945526123, 0.5852570533752441, 0.6029140949249268]

$ python3.3
Python 3.3.0 (default, Sep 29 2012, 15:35:49) 
[GCC 4.7.1] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from timeit import repeat
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\u0034'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.0985728640225716, 0.0984080360212829, 0.07457763599813916]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.901988381985575, 0.7517840950167738, 0.7540924890199676]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.3069786810083315, 0.17701858800137416, 0.1769046070112381]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
[1.081760977016529, 0.9099628589756321, 0.9926943230093457]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
[1.2101859120011795, 1.1039280130062252, 0.9306247030035593]
>>> repeat("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\U00012345sdf'*10000",number=10000)
[0.4759294819959905, 0.35435649199644104, 0.3540659479913302]


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> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:07:48 -0700
> Subject: Re: String performance regression from python 3.2 to 3.3
> From: rustompmody at gmail.com
> To: python-list at python.org
>
> 3.2 and 2.7 results on my desktop using Chris examples
> (Hope I cut-pasted them correctly)
> -----------------------------
> Welcome to the Emacs shell
>
> ~ $ python3
> Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 20 2013, 17:02:41)
> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from timeit import timeit
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\u0034'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.2893378734588623
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.2842249870300293
>
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.28406381607055664
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.28420209884643555
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.2853250503540039
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\U00012345sdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.283905029296875
> >>>
>
> ~ $ python
> Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 16:53:07)
> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from timeit import timeit
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\u0034'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.20418286323547363
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
>
> 0.20579099655151367
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\u1234'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.5055279731750488
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='asdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.28449511528015137
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\u1234sdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.6001529693603516
> >>> timeit("s=s[:-1]+'\U00012345'","s='\U00012345sdf'*10000",number=10000)
> 0.8430721759796143
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