[Python-Dev] efficient string concatenation (yep, from 2004) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 13 22:17:38 CET 2013


Steven D'Aprano wrote:

The documentation for strings is also clear that you should not rely on this optimization:

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It can, and does, fail on CPython as well, as it is sensitive to memory allocation details.

If it's that unreliable, why was it ever implemented in the first place?

-- Greg



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