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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:06:02 +0200
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Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> Building a string by appending small chunks to the end seems to be a
> common practice. Optimizing the library for this case is a wise
> implementation strategy.

Is there some material on this? I'm wondering whether concatenating
strings is more common in languages where strings are lists, or at
least not plain arrays.