[Python-ideas] Create a StringBuilder class and use it everywhere

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

2011/8/26 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>

> 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".
>>
>
> To me that suggests it may have been a mistake to try to
> optimise += at all in CPython, as it gives people misleading
> expectations.


The author of this optimization is also the lead designer of PyPy...

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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