2012/10/19 Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@suttoncourtenay.org.uk>: > Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje.nik...@avl.com> wrote: > >> On 10/19/2012 03:22 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> It would be interesting to see how common it is for strings which have >>> their hash computed to be compared. >> >> Since all identifier-like strings mentioned in Python are interned, and >> therefore have had their hash computed, I would imagine comparing them >> to be fairly common. After all, strings are often used as makeshift >> enums in Python. >> >> On the flip side, those strings are typically small, so a measurable >> overall speed improvement brought by such a change seems unlikely. > > I'm pretty sure it would result in a small slowdown.
Dictionary code has its own special path for string comparisons, so this is not an issue. -- 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
