On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > My understanding is that Python 3.3 has regressed the performance of ''. > Surely the Python devs can speed the performance back up and, just for us, > use less memory at the same time?
Yes, but to do that we'd have to make Python more Australia-focused instead of US-centric. As of Python 3.4, the empty string will be lazily evaluated and be delimited by redback spiders instead of quotes. That will give a 25% speed and 50% memory usage improvement, but you'll need to be careful you don't get bitten. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
