[Python-Dev] new buffer in python2.7 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Oct 27 14:15:19 CEST 2010

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:00:10 +0800 Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:

Calling getbuffer on a bytearray or a bytes object should be really cheap, so I still don't accept this as a matter of fact situation.

It is cheap. It's just that copying a short slice is dirt cheap as well.

Of course, it you manipulate 1 KB slices or longer, it's different.

Regards

Antoine.

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