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[Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:13:09 +0200
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
> And finally: RAM is cheap and today's CPUs work better with 16- or
> 32-bit values than 8-bit characters.

The latter is wrong. There is no cost in accessing bytes
rather than words on modern CPUs.
(actually, bytes are cheaper overall since they cost less cache)

Regards

Antoine.

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