???? Hardware-accellerated python ????

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Wed Aug 9 01:11:29 EDT 2000


Olivier Dagenais wrote:
> 
> If the dictionary lookups are hash-based, there isn't very much improvement
> to be done, as hash tables are usually O(1).

Python has a truly outstanding hashing implementation.
I very much doubt there is any kind of specialized
hardware which can improve that kind of thing. It's
compiler technology (native, JIT, et al) which will
lead to python performance improvements, IMO.




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