On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
<cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
> It stores the IP address in integer form, meaning the lookups on large
> tables are much faster:

are they?    hashtables shouldn't be too sensitive to key size, as
long as the string size stays bounded... like on IP addresses (max 15
chars)

of course, i don't know about the specific dict implementation on
Python.  Sounds like a job for a microbenchmark!

-- 
Javier

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