experimenting with bytearray

gistfile1.txt

maybe a way to squeeze a bit more out of these short string appends

>>> def list_method():
...    l = list()
...    for i in range(10000):
...       l.append(b'\x01')
...    return "".join(l)
...
>>> a = list_method()
>>> def byte_array_method():
...    b = bytearray(10000)
...    for i in range(10000):
...       b[i] = 1
...    return b
...
>>> b = byte_array_method()
>>>



>>> timeit.timeit('b = bytearray(10000)\nfor i in range(10000): b[i] = 1', numbe
r=100)
0.14167855132424734
>>> timeit.timeit('l=[]\nfor i in range(10000): l.append(b"\x01")\n"".join(l)',
number=100)
0.18589855693949175

>>> 0.185898/0.14167855
1.3121111135030674