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From: foser <foser@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Report of the desktop-research meeting.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:58:33
Message-Id: 1074725908.14970.2.camel@rivendell
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Report of the desktop-research meeting. by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 21:01, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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3 > Since avenj was too lazy to subscribe =P :
4 > <avenj> wasn't there some kind of potential performance hit there?
5 > <avenj> i thought i was thinking someone thought part of the issue with
6 > RH's performance was utf8 default, but now i'm thinking i'm not sure
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8 You don't mean python's alleged performance hit (this got shortly
9 discussed on -dev by lqx) ? To attribute a full systems performance to
10 UTF-8 sounds far fetched to me. Anyway, the benefits likely outclass
11 performance loss.
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13 - foser
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