[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16/07/2006 22:40:01:

> Hi Ben Young,

Hi Alexander,

> 
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:12:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > This looks really good! It shows there are still some major (easy) 
> > performance wins in PyPy.
> 
> Yes, I measured 35% speedup on richards/pystone on "the other branch" 
(that 
> solely knows this kind of dictionary unlike the current trunk).
> 
> > One question, why would you need any calls to str2object in any of the 

> > non-mutating methods?
> 
> Because every class can define it's own hash/eq functions that might be 
> considered insane in case of having them return hashes that match the 
> hashes of a string. That would mean that {"foo": 1}[myClass()] could 
return 
> 1. Therefore we have to switch the mode while having a shortcut for 
types 
> which are known to have sane hashes only.

Ouch! Yes, I see the problem now. Roll on parameretised collections :)

> 
> >                 w_lookup.__hash__()
> 
> I didn't even consider that people would write __hash__ methods with 
> side-effects :)
> 
> Kind regards,
> Alexander, who has resent this posting 2 days after the initial try - 
Gmane
> problems?
>

Not me!
 
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