On 21 July 2013 08:44, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 20.07.13 20:03, Joshua Landau написав(ла): > >> Still, it seems to me that it should be optimizable for sensible >> builtin types such that .translate is significantly faster, as there's >> no theoretical extra work that .translate *has* to do that .replace >> does not, and .replace also has to rebuild the string a lot of times. > > You should analyze overall mapping and reorder items in right order (if it > possible), i.e. '&' should be replaced before '<' in html.escape. This extra > work is too large for most real input.
I don't understand. What items are you reordering? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
