Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 18:12 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : > >> Not sure what you are using it for. If you need to extend the buffer > >> in case it is too small, there is absolutely no way this could work > >> without copies in the general case because of how computers use > >> address space. Even _PyBytes_Resize will copy the data. > > > > That's not a given. Depending on the memory allocator, a copy can be > > avoided. That's why the "str += str" hack is much more efficient under > > Linux than Windows, AFAIK. > > Even Linux will have to copy a block on realloc in certain cases, no?
Probably so. How often is totally unknown to me :) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
