New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com>: Here is patch that speed up *_find_max_char stringlib functions.
Microbenchmarks: ./python -m timeit -s "s='A'*20+'\x80'" "s[:-1]" ./python -m timeit -s "s='A'*20+'\U00010000'" "s[:-1]" Results on Intel Atom N570 @ 1.66GHz: vanilla patched 0.819 0.73 0.788 0.755 ---------- components: Interpreter Core files: find_max_char.patch keywords: patch messages: 163480 nosy: storchaka priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Faster *_find_max_char type: performance versions: Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26093/find_max_char.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15145> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com