[Python-Dev] Dictionary sparseness (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
05 May 2003 13:41:35 -0400

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:36, Alex Martelli wrote:

No thanks. I've paid my dues and I hope I will NEVER again have to work with a system that thinks it's so smart it doesn't need my advisory input -- or at least not on anything that's as performance-crucial as those Fortran programs were (most of my work in IBM Research in did with Rexx -- that's when I learned to love scripting! -- but then and again we did have to crunch really huge batches of numbers).

I think the graybox project is assuming that few people will have the luxury of working with a system that accepts useful advisory input. Given that hypothesis, they built a tool for identifying what algorithm is being used so that it can be tweaked appropriately.

Jeremy