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

[Fredrik Lundh]

Larry Hastings wrote:


>> what's in "s" when that loop is done?
> 
> It's equivalent to " 'a' * 10000000 ".  (I shan't post it here.)

but what *is* it ?  an ordinary PyString object with a flattened buffer, 
or something else ?

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