On 13/02/2013 11:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I fixed a performance bug in httplib some years ago by doing the exact
opposite; += -> ''.join(). In that case, it changed downloading a file
from 20 minutes to 3 seconds. That was likely on Python 2.5.
I remember it well.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/091125.html
I frequently link to this thread as an example of just how bad repeated
string concatenation can be, how painful it can be to debug, and how
even when the optimization is fast on one system, it may fail and be
slow on another system.
Amusing is that
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/thread.html#91125 doesn't
even list the email where I found the problem...
Chris
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