[Python-Dev] PEP 0008 confusion - here it is, but don't use it? (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Aug 6 21:09:54 CEST 2004


At 02:01 PM 8/6/04 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:

For example, do not rely on CPython's efficient implementation of in-place string concatenation for statements in the form a+=b or a=a+b. Those statements run more slowly in Jython.

Is that really true? I thought the last time this came up, somebody said that common Java implementations actually had special case code to speed up string concatenation.



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