(FYI, I filed bug report #1085744 on SF about this)
And Raymond Hettinger was able to decipher my somewhat incoherent rambling (tip: don't try to write bug reports in the wee hours of the morning) and produce a potentially useful modification to PySequence_Tuple.
Anyway, I guess the results I got emphasizes the fact that it's important to measure performance of the actual methods you're using on representative input data, rather than relying on overly simple demonstrators.
And, of course, don't be *too* concerned about optimisations until you know you actually have a performance problem. . .
Cheers, Nick.
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