flaming vs accuracy [was Re: Performance of int/long in Python 3]

[Mark Lawrence]

On 31/03/2013 08:35, jmfauth wrote:
> ------
>
> Neil Hodgson:
>
> "The counter-problem is that a French document that needs to include
> one mathematical symbol (or emoji) outside Latin-1 will double in size
> as a Python string."
>
> Serious developers/typographers/users know that you can not compose
> a text in French with "latin-1". This is now also the case with
> German (Germany).
>
> ---
>
> Neil's comment is correct,
>
>>>> sys.getsizeof('a' * 1000 + 'z')
> 1026
>>>> sys.getsizeof('a' * 1000 + '€')
> 2040
>
> This is not really the problem. "Serious users" may
> notice sooner or later, Python and Unicode are walking in
> opposite directions (technically and in spirit).
>
>>>> timeit.repeat("'a' * 1000 + 'ẞ'")
> [1.1088995672090292, 1.0842266613261913, 1.1010779011941594]
>>>> timeit.repeat("'a' * 1000 + 'z'")
> [0.6362570846925735, 0.6159128762502917, 0.6200501673623791]
>
>
> (Just an opinion)
>
> jmf
>

I'm feeling very sorry for this horse, it's been flogged so often it's 
down to bare bones.

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