The Cost of Dynamism

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

BartC wrote:

> 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?

You are missing the point.

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