Python speed-up

[Gerrit]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     gerrit> Why isn't cStringIO faster than concatenating strings?
> 
>     gerrit> Using python2.4:
>     ...
> 
> Because in 2.4 common case string concatenation gets a big speed boost:
> 
>     % python2.3 ~/local/bin/timeit.py  -s 's=""' "s+='foo'"
>     10000 loops, best of 3: 68.3 usec per loop
>     % python2.4 ~/local/bin/timeit.py  -s 's=""' "s+='foo'"
>     1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.855 usec per loop

Ah. Am I correct to conclude that StringIO should either be rewritten
concatenating strings, or be deprecated, or both?

Gerrit.

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