Building CPython

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> The benefit of this is that most strings will use 1/2 or 1/4 of the memory
> that they otherwise would need, which gives an impressive memory saving.
> That leads to demonstrable speed-ups in real-world code, however it is
> possible to find artificial benchmarks that experience a slowdown compared
> to Python 3.2.

It's also possible to find a number of situations in which a narrow
build of 3.2 was faster than 3.3, due to the buggy handling of
surrogates. I've no idea whether jmf is still complaining against that
basis or not, as I don't see his posts.

ChrisA