[Python-ideas] Fast sum() for non-numbers - why so much worries?

[Ron Adam]

On 07/11/2013 11:42 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> So.. make the numbers case faster, but probably don't bother changing the
>> non numbers case.  (It seems like this is the
>> preferred view so far.)
>
> I thought the whole point was to make *non*-numbers faster?

Um... yep, like what it says in the title...

Somewhere I got the idea he was making the numbers case faster too.  Maybe 
I was mistaken.


I need sum() more coffee, I think.   ;-)