[Python-Dev] Optimization

[Antoine Pitrou]

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.