"Ben Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Your evidence points to some unoptimized code in the underlying C
> implementation of Python. As such, this should probably go to the
> python-dev list (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev).
>
> The pro
Ben Cartwright wrote:
> > On my machine, the output is:
> >
> > str: 0.29365715475
> > array: 0.448095498171
> > unicode: 0.0243757237303
> This tactic typically avoids most (sometimes all) of the calls to
> memcmp. Other string search functions, including unicode.count,
> unicode.index, a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems to me that str.count is awfully slow. Is there some reason
> for this?
> Evidence:
>
> str.count time test
> import string
> import time
> import array
>
> s = string.printable * int(1e5) # 10**7 character string
> a = array.array('c', s)
> u =
