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On 21 Jan 2004, at 22:58, foser wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 21:01, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> Since avenj was too lazy to subscribe =P : |
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>> <avenj> wasn't there some kind of potential performance hit there? |
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>> <avenj> i thought i was thinking someone thought part of the issue |
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>> with |
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>> RH's performance was utf8 default, but now i'm thinking i'm not sure |
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> You don't mean python's alleged performance hit (this got shortly |
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> discussed on -dev by lqx) ? To attribute a full systems performance to |
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> UTF-8 sounds far fetched to me. Anyway, the benefits likely outclass |
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> performance loss. |
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Exactly, the performance hit is minimal for people who don't care about |
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UTF-8. The only performance hit was in python _if_ you used UTF-8 in a |
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script/application. And the performance hit was not in processing time, |
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but in memory consumption. |
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UTF-8 is pretty much essential to adoption by middle-eastern, european |
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and cjk languages. It could probably be taken on as a desktop project, |
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but I'd much rather it be a Gentoo-wide thing, because it affects much |
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more than the desktop (for instance, if you password has an accent in |
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it, then it will work differently under UTF-8.) |
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BTW, in respect to avenj's comment, there is no noticable performance |
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hit on Redhat 8/9 because of UTF-8 support, unless you mean the fact |
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that it would make glibc compiles a little bit longer because it |
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generates more locales with UTF-8 character sets. |
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Cheers, |
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Alastair 'liquidx' Tse |
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>> Gentoo Developer |
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>> http://www.liquidx.net/ | http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ |
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