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Examine Django-countries[pyuca] Memory Usage and lexical sorting
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Description
About 4-5% of LMS memory usage comes from pyuca, which as far as I can tell is used in our system to give django-countries a better sort order (it's an optional dependency of that package). This is because Unicode sorting is quite complex, involving multiple layers of lookup tables and glyph translations to handle many language-specific quirks.
How different is the sort order without pyuca installed, and how much does it matter? It must have some level of importance for them to bundle it with django-countries the way they did, but I'm not clear on how critical it is.
(Making a ticket for this for later followup since I don't have time to dig into it now.)
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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Compare django-countries sorting with and without its optional pyuca dependency, then measure the LMS memory difference and document whether the changed order is acceptable and how critical pyuca is.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, performance
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100