<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Christian Tismer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tismer@stackless.com" target="_blank">tismer@stackless.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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Would ropes be an answer (and a simple way to cope with string
mutation<br>
patterns) as an alternative implementation, and therefore still
justify<br>
the usage of that pattern?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I don't think so. Ropes are really useful when you work with gigabytes of data, but unfortunately they don't make good general-purpose strings. Monolithic arrays are much more efficient and simple for the typical use-cases we have in Python.</div>
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