On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:00:10 +0800 Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com> wrote: > Calling getbuffer on a bytearray or a bytes object should > be really cheap, so I still don't accept this as a matter of fact > situation.
It *is* cheap. It's just that copying a short slice is dirt cheap as well. Of course, it you manipulate 1 KB slices or longer, it's different. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com