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Author	pitrou
Recipients	loewis, mark.dickinson, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2012-05-09.05:38:23
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In-reply-to	<1336521522.38.0.748341957924.issue14744@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> According to my benchmark (see below), formating a small number (5 > decimal digits) is 17% faster with my patch version 2 compared to tip, > and 38% faster compared to Python 3.3 before my optimizations on str% > tuples or str.format(). Creating a temporary PyUnicode is not cheap, > at least for short strings. A 17% improvement on a micro-benchmark is not much. There will probably be no visible difference in real-world code. Also, if creating temporary PyUnicodes is not cheap, perhaps we could have a freelist for them?

> According to my benchmark (see below), formating a small number (5
> decimal digits) is 17% faster with my patch version 2 compared to tip,
> and 38% faster compared to Python 3.3 before my optimizations on str%
> tuples or str.format(). Creating a temporary PyUnicode is not cheap,
> at least for short strings.

A 17% improvement on a micro-benchmark is not much. There will probably
be no visible difference in real-world code.

Also, if creating temporary PyUnicodes is not cheap, perhaps we could
have a freelist for them?

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-05-09 05:38:24	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, mark.dickinson, vstinner, serhiy.storchaka
2012-05-09 05:38:23	pitrou	link	issue14744 messages
2012-05-09 05:38:23	pitrou	create