> Since there are discussions going on on the topic of allocation algorithms for > various built-in types, I thought I'd mention there's a patch for turning > unicode objects into variable-sized objects (rather than using a > separately-allocated buffer). The aim is to make allocation of those objects > lighter, and relieve cache and memory pressure a bit.
I find that fairly reasonable, so I'm +1 for this approach (haven't studied the patch, though). I always wondered why Unicode objects didn't work the way string objects work, to begin with. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
