[Python-Dev] PyBench DictCreation (was Re: Performance compares) (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Fri, 18 May 2001 17:36:42 +0200

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:27:39AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > (I guess he means the buffer is alloc'ed contiguously with the dict > > object head. That's often a nice strategy. Could do that for small > > lists too maybe, except those haven't gotten anybody's attention just > > yet.) > > Sounds to me like it would benifit tuples even more than lists or dicts. At > least in my code, I see more short tuples than short lists, and they are > usually not altered after creation ;-)

Which is why tuples already have this feature. Posted before your first cup of coffee? :-)

No, after my last meeting, before my first witbier of the friday-afternoon-office-beer-binge :) TGIF ;)

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