On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com>wrote:
> Would ropes be an answer (and a simple way to cope with string mutation > patterns) as an alternative implementation, and therefore still justify > the usage of that pattern? > I don't think so. Ropes are really useful when you work with gigabytes of data, but unfortunately they don't make good general-purpose strings. Monolithic arrays are much more efficient and simple for the typical use-cases we have in Python.
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