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@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ 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 ----------------- |