[Pyrex] Speeding up custom string lowercasing with Pyrex

[Bob Van Zant]

The += part was fixed up? Or the "".join() was made even faster?

-Bob


On 10/31/07 7:27 PM, "skip at pobox.com" <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> 
>     Bob> The "to = to + c" line strikes me as not being efficient. Python
>     Bob> creates a new copy of "to" every time it appends "c" to the
>     Bob> end. One common, pure-python fix is:
> 
>     Bob> to = []
>     Bob> for ...
>     Bob>    ...
>     Bob>    to.append( c )
>     Bob> return "".join(to)
> 
> This common case was sped up in Python 2.5.
> 
> Skip
>