Lyn A Headley wrote:

> Python "lists" are based on arrays, so I believe the performance is as
> follows (some of these functions don't really exists, but would be
> "faked" using slices or somesuch):

> append_lists([l1, l2, ... ln]) not sure if this exists.  The naive
> implementation using "+" would be quadratic.

That's an interesting observation: thanks for pointing it
out. In fact, expressions like

	x = a + b + c + d

are common manipulating strings in Python. Because I represent this
as a list, _not_ recursively, I can get linear performance,
if there is a way to preallocate the storage. [I can't remember
off hand if the 'Buffer' class allows this]. I can also do it 
for (python) lists, using Varray.

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