[Python-Dev] Optimization (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Oct 6 00:58:14 CEST 2013

On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 15:35:30 -0700 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

Making bytearray's efficiently pop from the left side is dubious. This isn't a common idiom, nor should it be. Even if all the other implementations could model this behavior, it wouldn't be a good idea to have bytearrays have different performance characteristics than strings.

Bytearrays are mutable and strings are immutable, so evidently they will have different performance characteristics.

Regards

Antoine.

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