[Python-Dev] Document performance requirements?

Jason Orendorff jason.orendorff at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 16:14:20 CEST 2006


On 7/21/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, I'm also struggling to think of a case other than list vs deque where
> the choice of a builtin or standard library data structure would be dictated
> by big-O() concerns.

OK, but that doesn't mean the information is unimportant.  +1 on
making this something of a priority.  People looking for this info
should find it in the obvious place.  Some are unobvious. (How fast is
dict.__eq__ on average? Worst case?)

-j


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