On 13.02.13 22:52, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Greg Ewing
<greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The documentation for strings is also clear that you should not rely on
this
optimization:
...
It
can, and does, fail on CPython as well, as it is sensitive to memory
allocation details.
If it's that unreliable, why was it ever implemented
in the first place?
The _trick_ was very good, the idea was - uhm - arguable.
I wished I had objected, but at that time I was only fascinated.
-- chris
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