[Python-Dev] More compact dictionaries with faster iteration (original) (raw)

Mark Shannon mark at hotpy.org
Mon Dec 10 10:06:51 CET 2012


On 10/12/12 01:44, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

The current memory layout for dictionaries is unnecessarily inefficient. It has a sparse table of 24-byte entries containing the hash value, key pointer, and value pointer.

Instead, the 24-byte entries should be stored in a dense table referenced by a sparse table of indices.

What minimum size and resizing factor do you propose for the entries array?

Cheers, Mark.



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