list.pop(0) vs. collections.dequeue

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 25 16:32:10 EST 2010


Steve Howell <showell30 at yahoo.com> writes:
[...]
> My algorithm does exactly N pops and roughly N list accesses, so I
> would be going from N*N + N to N + N log N if switched to blist.

Can you post your algorithm?  It would be interesting to have a concrete
use case to base this discussion on.

-- 
Arnaud



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