> probably that > you were underestimating the time required to parse the format string, > which is probably greater than anything else. Everything else is simple > searching and copying whereas the parsing is probably at least a > quadratic-order function.
No it will be linear (on the length of the format string).
But just rather more expensive than you probably expect.
There is a lot of red tape lurking.
David
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