String performance regression from python 3.2 to 3.3

[Roy Smith]

In article 
<70844d17-22bd-4394-86e2-d7ef3efc6cf7 at ps9g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,
 rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe that there are many things about unicode that are less than
> satisfactory. Some are downright asinine like the 'prime-real-estate'
> devoted to the control characters and never used.

Ah, but in UTF-32, all real-estate is the same price :-)