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

[Rob Williscroft]

Larry Hastings wrote in news:1159495643.213830.289620
@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python:

> _________
> THE PATCH
> 
> The core concept: adding two strings together no longer returns a pure
> "string" object.  Instead, it returns a "string concatenation" object
> which holds references to the two strings but does not actually
> concatenate
> them... yet.  The strings are concatenated only when someone requests
> the
> string's value, at which point it allocates all the space it needs and
> renders the concatenated string all at once.

On the python 3k list there is a thread about stings becoming "views", 
I think this is similar to what you are doing here.

<url:http://search.gmane.org/?
query=string+view&author=&group=gmane.comp.python.python-
3000.devel&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&xP=string.view.
&xFILTERS=Gcomp.python.python-3000.devl---A>

http://tinyurl.com/kadco

Rob.