[Python-Dev] PyBench DictCreation (was Re: Performance compares)

[Thomas Wouters]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:27:39AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > (I guess he means the buffer is alloc'ed contiguously with the dict
> > > object head.  That's often a nice strategy.  Could do that for small
> > > lists too maybe, except those haven't gotten anybody's attention just
> > > yet.)
> > 
> > Sounds to me like it would benifit tuples even more than lists or dicts. At
> > least in my code, I see more short tuples than short lists, and they are
> > usually not altered after creation ;-)
> 
> Which is why tuples already have this feature.
> 
> Posted before your first cup of coffee? :-)

No, after my last meeting, before my first witbier of the
friday-afternoon-office-beer-binge :) TGIF ;)

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