Aug. 25, 2011
4:40 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:28:34 +0300 k_bx <k.bx@ya.ru> wrote:
I don't mind using u''.join, but it just doesn't make people think about speed at all.
Realistically, not many workloads have performance issues with string concatenation in the first place. So not caring is the right thing to do in most cases.
The most popular (as from what I can see) thing right now where people start seeing that += is slow is when they try to do that on PyPy (which doesn't have hack like CPython, who is still slow) and ask "why my pypy code is sooooo slow".
Different implementations having different performance characteristics is not totally unexpected, is it? (and I'm sure the PyPy developers wouldn't mind adding another hack) Regards Antoine.