How to waste computer memory?

[Tim Chase]

On 2016-03-19 12:24, BartC wrote:
> So a string that looks like:
> 
> "ññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññññ"
> 
> can have 2**50 different representations? And occupy somewhere
> between 50 and 200 bytes? Or is that 400?

And moreover, they're all distinct if you don't normalize them.
Which certain environments such as CSS & HTML don't do.  So you can
have

css = """
  <style>
  .r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}sum\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE} {color: red;}
  .r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}sume\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}         {color: blue;}
  .re\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}sum\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}         {color: purple;}
  .re\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}sume\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}                 {color: purple;}
  <style>
  """

html_fragment = """
  <ul>
   <li class="r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}sum\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}">One
   <li class="r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}sume\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}">Two
   <li class="re\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}sum\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}">Three
   <li class="re\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}sume\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}">Four
  </ul>
  """

which will all appear visually identical in the source code, but
each is unique according to the DOM/CSS parser.

-tkc