Re: Unicode aware module

On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:58:07AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> In fact, my intuition says converting the data *once* to/from utf8
> will provide better performance than perpetually testing to see if
> the data is represented as bytes or in utf8 inside every operation
> that needs to deal with the data.
As you know from vgrepping UTF-8 patch, the OPs which depend on
encoding are very few (and most of them are quite slow).  An extra
check in such operations should not be noticable.

Ilya