[Python-Dev] Optimization of the Year

[Hye-Shik Chang]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:04:02AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Raymond]
> > Hey, hey!  After looking at this on and off for months, I finally
> > found a safe way to dramatically improve the speed of building lists:
> >
> > 	http://users.rcn.com/python/download/list.diff
> 
> Cool!
> 

I made an updated patch very slightly modified from Raymond's.
Dropped use of track_* member variables and applied simpler extra
size calculation suggested by Tim.

 http://people.freebsd.org/~perky/list-r2.diff.txt


Hye-Shik