As the OP suggests, decoding with a codec like mac-roman or iso8859-1 is very slow compared to encoding or decoding with utf-8. Here I'm working with 53k of data instead of 53 megs. (Note: this is a laptop, so it's possible that thermal or battery management features affected these numbers a bit, but by a factor of 3 at most)
$ timeit.py -s "s='a'*53*1024; u=unicode(s)" "u.encode('utf-8')"
1000 loops, best of 3: 591 usec per loop
$ timeit.py -s "s='a'*53*1024; u=unicode(s)" "s.decode('utf-8')"
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.25 msec per loop
$ timeit.py -s "s='a'*53*1024; u=unicode(s)" "s.decode('mac-roman')"
100 loops, best of 3: 13.5 msec per loop
$ timeit.py -s "s='a'*53*1024; u=unicode(s)" "s.decode('iso8859-1')"
100 loops, best of 3: 13.6 msec per loop
With utf-8 encoding as the baseline, we have
decode('utf-8') 2.1x as long
decode('mac-roman') 22.8x as long
decode('iso8859-1') 23.0x as long
Perhaps this is an area that is ripe for optimization.
Jeff
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