The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

[BartC]

On 12/03/2016 19:26, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> BartC wrote:
>
>> On 12/03/2016 12:13, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> Why, look at the *English* page on Hillary Clinton:
>>>
>>>      Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/ (born
>>>      October 26, 1947) is an American politician.
>>>      <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton>
>>>
>>> You couldn't get past the first sentence in ASCII.
>>
>> I saved that page locally as a .htm file in UTF-8 encoding. I ran a
>> modified version of my benchmark, and it appeared that 99.7% of the
>> bytes had ASCII codes.
>
> That is a contradiction in terms.  Obviously you do not know what ASCII is.

What does your own analysis show of that page?

If you had it in memory as fully expanded 32-bit Unicode values, what 
proportion of those would have values below 128?

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Bartc