[Python-3000] Making more effective use of slice objects in Py3k (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Aug 28 18:42:06 CEST 2006

Josiah (and other supporters of string views),

You seem to be utterly convinced of the superior performance of your proposal without having done any measurements.

You appear to have a rather naive view on what makes code execute fast or slow (e.g. you don't seem to appreciate the savings due to a string object header and its data being consecutive in memory).

Unless you have serious benchmark data (for realistic Python code) I can't continue to participate in this discussion, where you have said nothing new in many posts.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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