Abuse of Big Oh notation

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

By chance and luckily, first attempt.

IDLE, Windows 7.0 Pro 32, Pentium Dual Core 2.6, RAM 2 Go

Py 3.2.3
>>> timeit.repeat("('€'*100+'€'*100).replace('€', 'œ')")
[1.6939567134893707, 1.672874290786993, 1.6761219212298073]

Py 3.3.0b2
>>> timeit.repeat("('€'*100+'€'*100).replace('€', 'œ')")
[7.924470733910917, 7.8554985620787345, 7.878623849091914]


Console

c:\python32\python -m timeit "('€'*100+'€'*100).replace('€'
, 'œ')"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.48 usec per loop
c:\python33\python -m timeit "('€'*100+'€'*100).replace('€'
, 'œ')"
100000 loops, best of 3: 7.62 usec per loop

Note
The used characters are not members of the latin-1 coding
scheme (btw an *unusable* coding).
They are however charaters in cp1252 and mac-roman.

jmf