string.join() vs % and + operators
Al Christians
achrist at easystreet.com
Fri Apr 2 19:50:09 EST 1999
Aahz Maruch wrote:
>
> Yup. Using '+' for strings really bites when you've got long (or
> potentially long) strings. The average size of the string you're
> concatenating is about a hundred characters; suppose you're doing CGI
> work with redirects, and you're looking at closer to three hundred
> characters a pop.
>
> Try adding a 1K pre-string to the front of each of your Ways and see
> what happens to the speed.
Time went up from 69 secondes to 115. So it takes only a little bit
longer to join the strings than it does to skip over 1k exach time.
Al
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