[Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Mar 11 21:28:56 CET 2008

Can you really say that you don't make any design decisions early on based on the assumption that dict lookup will almost certainly be a lot faster than searching a list?

I follow the advice Guido gave: I use the data structure that will make my code shortest and easiest to read, regardless of performance consequences initially. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Regards, Martin

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