On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nathaniel: my experience (see blog posting above for a bit more) is > that khash really crushes PyDict for two reasons: you can use it with > primitive types and avoid boxing, and secondly you can preallocate. > Its memory footprint with large hashtables is also a fraction of > PyDict. The Python memory allocator is not problematic-- if you create > millions of Python objects expect the RAM usage of the Python process > to balloon absurdly.
The other big reason to consider allowing khash (or some other hash implementation) within numpy is that you can use it without the GIL. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
