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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Mar 21 20:20:25 EDT 2016


On 3/21/2016 1:12 PM, BartC wrote:

> Given that 99.9998% of input byte data is ASCII, and 99.9999% of
> characters (in this data), is it unreasonable to concentrate on that
> 0..127 range?

No.  And if you take the approach of mapping the whole ascii set, you 
should use a lookup sequence rather than a lookup dict.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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