Speed of string += string

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Carl Banks wrote:
>>But is that /guaranteed/ (as it is with STL), or does it just happen to be 
>>that way with the current implementation (however unlikely it is to 
>>change)?
> 
> It's not guaranteed, but if it ever changes, I'll eat my hat.

If it ever did change (for the worse), I think there would be a
LOT of VERY unhappy Python users!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg