On 28 July 2013 09:45, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> Op 27-07-13 20:21, wxjmfa...@gmail.com schreef: > >> utf-8 or any (utf) never need and never spend their time >> in reencoding. >> > > So? That python sometimes needs to do some kind of background > processing is not a problem, whether it is garbage collection, > allocating more memory, shufling around data blocks or reencoding a > string, that doesn't matter. If you've got a real world example where > one of those things noticeably slows your program down or makes the > program behave faulty then you have something that is worthy of > attention. Somewhat off topic, but befitting of the triviality of this thread, do I understand correctly that you are saying garbage collection never causes any noticeable slowdown in real-world circumstances? That's not remotely true.
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