On 9/10/06, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Modern I/O is astonishingly fast anyhow. On my computer it takes five > > seconds to decode a quarter gigabyte of UTF-8 text through Python. > > Maybe we shouldn't be that presomptuous. Modern I/O is fast but memory > is not infinite. That quarter gigabyte will have swapped out other > data/code in order to make some place in the filesystem cache.
Not really. It works in 16k chunks. > Also, Python is often used on more modest hardware. People writing programs to deal with vast amounts of data on modest computers are trying to do something advanced and should not use the quick and dirty guessing algorithms. We're not trying to hit 100% of programmers and situations. Not even close. The PEP was very explicit about that fact. Paul Presocd _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
