[Tutor] Astonishing timing result

[Kent Johnson]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote:

> Instead I've tried to find out if it's true what Alex Martelli writes on p.
> 484 in the section, "Building up a string from pieces" in his _Python in a
> Nutshell_, 2nd ed., which covers Python 2.4x.

You might be interested in this, complete with a picture:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2004_08.html#e55

and this followup:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2004_08.html#e56

Kent