On 08/08/2014 08:23 AM, Chris Barker wrote:

So my final question is this:

repeated string concatenation is not the "recommended" way to do this -- but 
nevertheless, cPython has an optimization
that makes it fast and efficient, to the point that there is no practical 
performance reason to prefer appending to a
list and calling join()) afterward.

So why not apply a similar optimization to sum() for strings?

That I cannot answer -- I find the current situation with sum highly irritating.

--
~Ethan~
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
Python-Dev@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe: 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Reply via email to