[Python-Dev] optimization required: .format() is much slower than % (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Tue May 27 18:38:24 CEST 2008


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

The only optimisation idea I came up with (other than the addition of a tpformat slot) is for string objects to be able to cache their (lookup:subformat) pairs rather than having to parse themselves every time. That has obvious memory consumption implications though. If a string is used as a formatting template, it is bound to be used again as such. So IMHO it sounds quite reasonable. In order to avoid memory consumption issues there could be a centralized cache as for regular expressions. It makes it easier to handle eviction based on various parameters, and it saves a few bytes for string objects which are never used as a formatting template. Regards Antoine.

+1 to that idea.



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