Am Mittwoch 24 Mai 2006 06:12 schrieb Tim Roberts: > At one time, it was said that the "%" operator was the fastest way to > concatenate strings, because it was implemented in C, whereas the + > operator was interpreted. However, as I recall, the difference was hardly > measurable, and may not even exist any longer.
The difference doesn't exist anymore for CPython (if you join a lot of strings), but for Jython (and several other dialects), the fastest way to join strings is still "".join(), because there are no optimizations on a += b and the likes of it (replacement for the % operator, e.g.). --- Heiko. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list