[Python-Dev] Document performance requirements? (original) (raw)

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 13:59:56 CEST 2006

On Friday 21 July 2006 7:49 am, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Neal Becker wrote: > For a recent project I needed to select a container. There are plenty of > python data structures to choose from. It seems that information on > performance is missing (or not easy to find). > > I think Python should include performance in the documentation of common > data structures to help users select the appropriate types. Something in > the style of c++ STL.

Do you mean absolute performance, or do you mean algorithmic order guarantees? I thought the latter were already documented. . .

The latter. Where are they documented?

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