On 22Oct2018 1007, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
22.10.18 16:24, Steve Dower пише:
Yes, that's true. But "should reduce ... footprint" is also an
optimisation that deserves a benchmark by that standard. Also, I'm
proposing keeping the 'kind' as UCS-2 when the string is created from
UCS-2 data that is likely to be used as UCS-2. We would not create the
UCS-1 version in this case, so it's not the same as prefilling the
cache, but it would cost a bit of memory in exchange for CPU. If
slicing and concatentation between matching kinds also preserved the
kind, a lot of path handling code could avoid back-and-forth conversions.
Oh, I afraid this will complicate the whole code of unicodeobject.c (and
several other files) a much and can introduce a lot of subtle bugs.
For example, when you search a UCS2 string in a UCS1 string, the current
code returns the result fast, because a UCS1 string can't contain codes
> 0xff, and a UCS2 string should contain codes > 0xff. And there are
many such assumptions.
That doesn't change though, as we're only ever expanding the range. So
searching a UCS2 string in a UCS2 string that doesn't contain any actual
UCS2 characters is the only case that would be affected, and whether
that case occurs more than the UCS2->UCS1->UCS2 conversion case is
something we can measure (but I'd be surprised if substring searches
occur more frequently than OS conversions).
Currently, unicode_compare_eq exits early when the kinds do not match,
and that would be a problem (but is also easily fixable). But other
string operations already handle mismatched kinds.
Cheers,
Steve
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