[Python-ideas] RFC: PEP: Add dict.__version__

Nicholas Chammas nicholas.chammas at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 10:38:54 EST 2016


On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlgren at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Often when I hear people complain about "tiny" improvements, I change the
> context: "Ok, I'm going to raise your salary 5%, or is that too small and
> you don't want it?"  Suddenly that 5% looks pretty good.
>

To extend this analogy a bit, I think Neil's objection was more along the
lines of "Why work an extra 5 hours a week for only a 5% raise?"

I don't think anyone's going to pooh-pooh a performance improvement. Neil's
concern is just about whether the benefit justifies the cost.

Nick
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