Speed of string += string

[Christopher A. Craig]

Mads Orbesen Troest <mads at troest.NEVERMORE.dk> writes:

> But is that /guaranteed/ (as it is with STL), or does it just happen to be 
> that way with the current implementation (however unlikely it is to 
> change)?

It's technically not guaranteed even in the current implementation.
All those operations are actually O(N), but that's a very unlikely
worst case.  

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