Speed of string += string

[Daniel Berlin]

On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 01:26  PM, Courageous wrote:

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>> 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)?
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> It's amortized. It's a highly tuned hash table. Python doesn't have
> implementation _specs_ (requirements) in the nature of STL.

Right.
This is because nobody could determine what country Tim Peters *really* 
represents, so we couldn't form an ISO committee to spend 5 years doing 
it.
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