[Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Sep 15 12:33:25 EDT 2016


On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:13:54 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

This also shows that a micro-benchmark that merely looks ok can actually be a terrible proxy of actual performance.

... unless all your dicts have their key objects nicely arranged sequentially in heap memory, of course.

Regards

Antoine.



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