[Python-Dev] efficient string concatenation (yep, from 2004)

[Christian Tismer]

On 13.02.13 22:52, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Greg Ewing
> <greg.ewing at 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

(There are parallels on a larger scale, but I'm shutting up, intentionally.)

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