Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Reopening and attaching a more ambitious patch, based on the optimization of runs of ASCII characters. This time the speedup is much more impressive, up to 75% faster on pure ASCII input -- actually faster than latin1.
The worst case (tight interleaving of ASCII and non-ASCII chars) shows a 8% slowdown. (performance measured with gcc and MSVC) ---------- resolution: rejected -> status: closed -> open Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12645/utf8decode3.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4868> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com