Larry Hastings wrote: >> Nice idea, though. You might also see how it does on tasks like >> >> s = "" >> for i in range(100000): >> s += "a" > > Sure. Here are the results, but with range (10000000):
ten million? what hardware are you running this on? > Python 2.5 release: 31.0s > Python 2.5 locally built: 30.7s > Python 2.5 concat: 4.4s > % Improvement: *697%*! > > Woah! Thanks for suggesting a benchmark where it really shines :) what's in "s" when that loop is done? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
