On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It will depend what version of Python you're using and the *exact* details > of the code in question. An optimization was introduced where, if the > string being concatenated to is not referred to anywhere else, it will be > re-sized in place. This means you'll probably see sub-quadratic behavior, > but only with a version of Python where this optimization exists and only > if the code can manage to trigger it.
AFAICT, PyString_Concat never calls _PyString_Resize. Am I looking in the wrong place? -Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list