Please don't be unnecessarily cruel and antagonistic. -- Devin
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 10/06/2014 20:43, alister wrote: >> >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:27:26 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: >> > > [snip the garbage] > > >>> >>> jmf >> >> >> Your error reports always seem to resolve around benchmarks despite speed >> not being one of Pythons prime objectives >> >> Computers store data using bytes >> ASCII Characters can be used storing a single byte >> Unicode code-points cannot be stored in a single byte >> therefore Unicode will always be inherently slower than ASCII >> >> implementation details mean that some Unicode characters may be handled >> more efficiently than others, why is this wrong? >> why should all Unicode operations be equally slow? >> > > I'd like to dedicate a song to jmf. From the "Canterbury Sound" band > Caravan, the album "The Battle Of Hastings", the song title "Liar". > > -- > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what > you can do for our language. > > Mark Lawrence > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list