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Author pitrou
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Date 2007-04-12.09:19:44
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Hi,

> Dropping the priority.  This pay-off is near zero and likely not worth the
> cost of making the code more complex than it already is.

No problem!
The more interesting question actually was whether it made any sense to factor out the split() implementation in "stringlib" so as to share the implementation between str and unicode.

Also, as for the USE_FAST question you asked on python-dev, I may have an answer: if you try to enable USE_FAST you'll see that some operations are indeed faster on large strings (say 100s or 1000s of characters), but they become slower on small strings because of the larger overhead of the search algorithm. Thus USE_FAST could negatively impact Python programs which process a lot of small strings.
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