copy-on-write for dict objects?

[Michael Hudson]

Matthias Oberlaender <matthias.oberlaender at REMOVE.daimlerchrysler.com> writes:

> In <7h34r89p3wp.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk> Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> <snip>  my stuff deleted 
> 
> > 
> > You *could* try this (untested):

*my* stuff deleted.

> Another problem with all these approaches is that they introduce a
> level of indirection. For example, I use to write 'k in d' in my
> code (which seems to be even faster than 'd.has_key(k)'.  If this
> has to go through a method of my own, the speed penalty is
> significant.

Only until the copy happens, though.  Urgh, actually not in the code I
posted, but that's easy.  Better than nothing?

Cheers,
M.

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