New submission from STINNER Victor:
In Python 3.3, I added _PyUnicodeWriter API to factorize code handling a
Unicode "buffer", just the code to allocate memory and resize the buffer if
needed.
I propose to do the same with a new _PyBytesWriter API. The API is very similar
to _PyUnicodeWriter:
* _PyBytesWriter_Init(writer)
* _PyBytesWriter_Prepare(writer, count)
* _PyBytesWriter_WriteStr(writer, bytes_obj)
* _PyBytesWriter_WriteChar(writer, ch)
* _PyBytesWriter_Finish(writer)
* _PyBytesWriter_Dealloc(writer)
The patch changes ASCII, Latin1, UTF-8 and charmap encoders to use
_PyBytesWriter API. A second patch changes CJK encoders.
I did not run a benchmark yet. I wrote a patch to factorize the code, not the
make the code faster.
Notes on performances:
* I peek the "small buffer allocated on the stack" idea from UTF-8 encoder,
but the smaller buffer is always 500 bytes (instead of a size depending on the
Unicode maximum character of the input Unicode string)
* _PyBytesWriter overallocates by 25% (when overallocation is enabled),
whereas charmap encoders doubles the buffer:
/* exponentially overallocate to minimize reallocations */
if (requiredsize < 2*outsize)
requiredsize = 2*outsize;
* I didn't check if the allocation size is the same with the patch. min_size
and overallocate attributes should be set correctly to not make the code slower.
* The code writing a single into a _PyUnicodeWriter buffer is inlined in
unicodeobject.c. _PyBytesWriter API does not provide inlined function for the
same purpose.
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files: bytes_writer.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 187035
nosy: haypo, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add _PyBytesWriter API
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29877/bytes_writer.patch
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