Tuple question

[Aahz]

In article <P5GdnUwq-8QI6KrcRVn-qg at powergate.ca>,
Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>
>Why do you think tuples use significantly less memory than lists?
>As far as I know, they don't.  (They do use less, but if you are
>really talking about huge amounts of data such that you would
>be trying to optimize in this way, then the amount that they use
>is not *significantly* less.)

Actually, if you have large numbers of short sequences, the memory
savings from tuples can indeed be significant.  I don't remember off-hand
what the number is, but I think it's something on the order of 20%.
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