RE Module Performance

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 30-07-13 18:13, MRAB schreef:
> On 30/07/2013 15:38, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Op 30-07-13 16:01, wxjmfauth at gmail.com schreef:
>>>
>>> I am pretty sure that once you have typed your 127504 ascii
>>> characters, you are very happy the buffer of your editor does not
>>> waste time in reencoding the buffer as soon as you enter an €, the
>>> 125505th char. Sorry, I wanted to say z instead of euro, just to
>>> show that backspacing the last char and reentering a new char
>>> implies twice a reencoding.
>>
>> Using a single string as an editor buffer is a bad idea in python for
>> the simple reason that strings are immutable.
>
> Using a single string as an editor buffer is a bad idea in _any_
> language because an insertion would require all the following
> characters to be moved.

Not if you use a gap buffer.

-- 
Antoon Pardon.