Tim Peters wrote:
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Someone want a finite project that would _really_ help their Uncle
Timmy in his slow-motion crusade to get Python on the list of solved
it! languages for each problem on that magnificent site?
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Turns out it's _not_ input speed that's the problem here, and not even
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Speeding up list append calls
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A `comp.lang.python message from Tim Peters`_ prompted Neal Norwitz
to investigate how the code that Tim posted could be sped up. He
hacked the code to replace var.append() with the LIST_APPEND
