On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 9:49:23 PM UTC+12, BartC wrote: > Even if Python has extremely efficient string handling, we know that > low-level string ops normally take longer than low-level integer ops.
Maybe part of the general principle that, on modern machines, memory is cheap, but accessing memory is expensive? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list