Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> so what does the benchmark look like if you actually do this ?
Okay, timing this:
x = ""
for i in range(100000):
x += "a"
t = x[1] # forces the concat object to render
The result:
Python 2.5 release: 30.0s
Python 2.5 locally built: 30.2s
Python 2.5 concat: 4.3s
Improvement: 600% (1/7 of the time)
/larry/