[Python-Dev] Dictionary tuning
Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)
tdelaney@avaya.com
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:54:35 +1000
> From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip@pobox.com]
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> Tim> at the moment ... I'm somewhat over-allocated :(
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> Skip> Can't you just head over to Dunkin' Donuts and resize? ;-)
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> Tim> Umm ... I'm parsing this OK ... seems syntactically=20
> correct ... but
> Tim> the not sure about the semantics ...
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> Well, when a dictionary is over-allocated, we make it bigger=20
> to create more
> space. I was thinking maybe you could try a similar sort of=20
> approach using
> donuts...
Making me bigger won't help anything (I'm trying to make myself
smaller).
Now, if Dunkin' Donuts can make more of me, that's another matter ...
Tim Delaney