Or maybe you were talking about hash tables in MySQL. Either way, you're right that this would probably need some benchmarks before being approved for the core.
@django-developers, if I was to provide some benchmarks, would this possibly be considered for the core? Cal On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry, I should have been a little more specific. > > I meant faster lookups in terms of database index, such as MySQL with > InnoDB. > > Cal > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez < > jav...@guerrag.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
