STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: Benchmark: a) ./python -m timeit "(b'\xc3\xa9' * 10000).decode('utf-8')" b)./python -m timeit "(''.join( map(chr, range(0, 128)) )*1000).encode('utf-8')" c) ./python -m timeit "f=open('Misc/ACKS', encoding='utf-8'); acks=f.read(); f.close()" "acks.encode('utf-8')" d) ./python -m timeit "f=open('Misc/ACKS', 'rb'); acks=f.read(); f.close()" "acks.decode('utf-8')"
Original -> patched (smallest value of 3 runs): a) 85.8 usec -> 83.4 usec (-2.8%) b) 548 usec -> 688 usec (+25.5%) c) 132 usec -> 144 usec (+9%) d) 65.9 usec -> 67.3 usec (+2.1%) Oh, decode 2 bytes sequences are faster with my patch. Strange :-) But 25% slower to encode a pure ASCII text is not a good news. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2857> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com