[Python-Dev] efficient string concatenation (yep, from 2004) (original) (raw)
Christian Tismer tismer at stackless.com
Thu Feb 14 01:13:08 CET 2013
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On 13.02.13 22:52, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The documentation for strings is also clear that you should not rely on this optimization:
... 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?
The trick was very good, the idea was - uhm - arguable. I wished I had objected, but at that time I was only fascinated.
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