[issue19087] bytearray front-slicing not optimized

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

And the same is for a list. List and bytearray are wrong types for front deleting. I don't think we should increase the size of bytearray, and complicate and slowdown it for such special purpose.

If you want to implement a fifo using bytearray more optimal, defer the deleting until used size less than a half of allocated size. See for example XMLPullParser.read_events() in Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py.

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