PATCH: Speed up direct string concatenation by 20+%!

[Istvan Albert]

Larry Hastings wrote:

> That patch addressed the same general problem, but took a completely
> different approach.  For the record, this patch (#980695) optimized "x

Larry,

Forgot to mention this, in case you haven't done so post your original
message/patch on the python-dev lists since that's where the decisions
are made. This group is more end-user oriented.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/thread.html

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