Re: [Python-Dev] [pypy-dev] efficient string concatenation (yep, from 2004)

2013-02-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 14/02/13 01:44, Nick Coghlan wrote: Deliberately *relying* on the += hack to avoid quadratic runtime is just plain wrong, and our documentation already says so. +1 I'm not sure that there's any evidence that people in general are *relying* on the += hack. More likely they write the first

Re: [Python-Dev] [pypy-dev] efficient string concatenation (yep, from 2004)

2013-02-12 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
Hi Christian. We have it, just not enabled by default. --objspace-with-strbuf I think On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Christian Tismer wrote: > Hi friends, > > efficient string concatenation has been a topic in 2004. > Armin Rigo proposed a patch with the name of the subject, > more precisely: