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authorAndrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>2003-12-28 07:43:56 (GMT)
committerAndrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>2003-12-28 07:43:56 (GMT)
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complete backout of listobject.c v2.171
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@@ -118,14 +118,6 @@ Core and builtins
same as split() except that it scans the string from the end
working towards the beginning. See SF feature request 801847.
-- in a thread on comp.lang.python, several people noted that list()
- was much slower than in 2.1 and earlier versions of Python, when used
- to create new lists from existing lists. Duncan Booth did some
- research that uncovered an optimisation that, for lists below
- about 100 elements, was actually slower than the normal case. The
- special case criteria have been tightened to rectify the performance
- regression.
-
Extension modules
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