2009/4/9 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > John Arbash Meinel wrote: >> >> And when you look at the intern function, it doesn't use >> setdefault logic, it actually does a get() followed by a set(), which >> means the cost of interning is 1-2 lookups depending on likelyhood, etc. > > Keep in mind that intern() is called fairly rarely, mostly > only at module load time. It may not be worth attempting > to speed it up.
That's very important, though, for a command line tool for bazaar. Even a few fractions of a second can make a difference in user perception of speed. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
