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[Terry Reedy]

On 1/7/2014 9:54 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 1/7/2014 8:34 AM, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
>> Le dimanche 5 janvier 2014 23:14:07 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit :
>
>>> Memory: Point 2. A *design goal* of FSR was to save memory relative  to
>>> UTF-32, which is what you apparently prefer. Your examples show that FSF
>>> successfully met its design goal. But you call that success, saving
>>> memory, 'wrong'. On what basis?
>
>> Point 2: This Flexible String Representation does no
>> "effectuate" any memory optimization. It only succeeds
>> to do the opposite of what a corrrect usage of utf*
>> do.
>
> Since the FSF *was* successful in saving memory, and indeed shrank the
> Python binary by about a megabyte, I have no idea what you mean.

Tim Delaney apparently did, and answered on the basis of his 
understanding. Note that I said that the design goal was 'save memory 
RELATIVE TO UTF-32', not 'optimize memory'. UTF-8 was not considered an 
option. Nor was any form of arithmetic coding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding
to truly 'optimize memory'.

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Terry Jan Reedy