should writing Unicode files be so slow

Thu Mar 18 21:49:56 EDT 2010

djc <slais-www at ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> I have a simple program to read a text (.csv) file

Could you please:
* simplify it further: make a minimal version that demonstrates the
 difference you're seeing, without any extraneous stuff that doesn't
 appear to affect the result.
* make it complete: the code you've shown doesn't do anything except
 define some functions.
In other words: please reduce it to a complete, minimal example that we
can run to see the same behaviour you're seeing.
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