2012/1/29 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:56:11 -0500 > Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > >> 2012/1/29 Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org>: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Now that issue 13703 has been largely settled, >> > I want to propose my new dictionary implementation again. >> > It is a little more polished than before. >> >> If you're serious about changing the dictionary implementation, I >> think you should write a PEP. It should explain the new dicts >> advantages (and disadvantages?) and give comprehensive benchmark >> numbers. Something along the lines of >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3128/ I should think. > > "New dictionary implementation" is a misnomer here. Mark's patch merely > allows to share the keys array between several dictionaries. The lookup > algorithm remains exactly the same as far as I've read. It's actually > much less invasive than e.g. Martin's AVL trees-for-hash-collisions > proposal.
Ah, okay. So, the subject makes sound scarier than it is. :) -- 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
