[Pyrex] Speeding up custom string lowercasing with Pyrex

[Stefan Behnel]

Bob Van Zant wrote:
> 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.
>
> The += part was fixed up?

Yes.

Stefan