more efficient?

[Aahz]

In article <4b3091b2$0$22916$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
Irmen de Jong  <irmen at -NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>Personally I'm only using the join-style-concat if I know the number of 
>strings is rather large, or unknown. Otherwise I stick with just the 
>regular string concatenation or string formattting (with % or format). 
>Much more readable.

Generally speaking, I always use join() if I'm iterating and almost never
when not iterating.  The performance-killer is concatenation in a tight
loop.
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