socket send O(N**2) complexity

Mike hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Mon Sep 21 15:47:02 EDT 2009


On Sep 21, 2:03 pm, Zac Burns <zac... at gmail.com> wrote:
> The mysocket.mysend method given athttp://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.htmlhas an (unwitting?) O(N**2)
> complexity for long msg due to the string slicing.
>
> I've been looking for a way to optimize this, but aside from a pure
> python 'string slice view' that looks at the original string I can't
> think of anything. Perhaps start and end keywords could be added to
> send? I can't think of a reason for the end keyword,  but it would be
> there for symmetry.

for ch in msg: add to current buffer or start another buffer
for buf in buffers: send(...buf)



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