[pypy-dev] CFFI speed results

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And ASPW does the same right? I understand the general need for UTF8,
>> I just didn't find it in this particular query.
>
> Fwiw, I wonder again if we couldn't have all our unicode strings
> internally be UTF8 instead of 2- or 4-bytes strings.  This would mean
> a W_UTF8UnicodeObject class that has both a reference to the RPython
> string and some optional extra data to make it faster to locate the
> n'th character or the total unicode length.  (We discussed it on IRC
> some time ago.)
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.

Some sort of string strategies? like "we know it's ascii" or so as well?