Unicode 7

[Rustom Mody]

On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:31:56 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Here is an instance of someone who would like a certain optimization to be
> > dis-able-able
> > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-February/667169.html
> > To the best of my knowledge its nothing to do with unicode or with jmf.

> It doesn't, and it has only to do with testing. I've had similar
> issues at times; for instance, trying to benchmark one language or
> language construct against another often means fighting against an
> optimizer. (How, for instance, do you figure out what loop overhead
> is, when an empty loop is completely optimized out?) This is nothing
> whatsoever to do with Unicode, nor to do with the optimization that
> Python and Pike (and maybe other languages) do with the storage of
> Unicode strings.

This was said in response to Terry's

> CPython has many other functions with special-case optimizations and
> 'fast paths' for common, simple cases. For instance, (some? all?) number
> operations are optimized for pairs of integers.  Do you call these
> 'strange beasties'?

which evidently vanished -- optimized out :D -- in multiple levels of quoting