Slow String Repeat (was: [Python-Dev] PyBuffer* vs. array.array())

[Guido van Rossum]

Of course, repeating a 1-length string could be special-cased using
memcpy().  I don't think repeating 2-length strings is a common use
case.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)