Lists, tuples and memory.
Christopher T King
squirrel at WPI.EDU
Fri Jul 16 14:21:29 EDT 2004
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Peter Otten wrote:
> Christopher T King wrote:
>
> > Try using a set instead of a dictionary. You should get the good access
> > time of dictionaries with nearly the low memory usage of a list:
>
> sets.Set() holds its data in a dict. I fear the same goes for 2.4's builtin
> set type which is coded in C but also built on top of dict.
Ick. I thought part of the reason Set was created (aside from enabling
set operations) was to improve on the dict() storage method.
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