eGenix at the EuroPython Conference 2014

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>>> sys.getsizeof('a')
26
>>> sys.getsizeof('EURO')
40
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.timeit("('abc'*1000 + 'z').find('z')")
2.4989620382882043
>>> timeit.timeit("('abc'*1000 + 'EURO').find('EURO')")
5.09689729988173
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # ditto, for a dozen European languages
>>> # languages using a latin alphabet with
>>> # some small exceptions (eg German (Germany))
>>> 
>>> # Py3.2 does better!
>>>

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