On 18 October 2015 at 17:41, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:35 AM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> > That's interesting about the `self._full` variable slowing it down, I
> think
> > I'm not surprised (but obviously it depends on just how it's used).  But
> one
> > can also simply define RingBuffer.isfull() using
> `self.max==len(self.data)`
> > if you prefer that approach.  I doubt `myringbuffer.isfull()` is
> something
> > you need to call in an inner loop.
> >
> > That said, I think my implementation of RingBuffer would probably look
> more
> > like (completely untested):
> >
> > class RingBuffer(object):
> >     def __init__(self, size_max):
> >         self.data = [None] * size_max
> >         self.size_max = size_max
> >         self.used = 0
> >         self.cur = 0
> >     def append(self, val):
> >         self.data[self.cur] = val
> >         self.cur = (self.cur+1) % self.size_max
> >         self.used = max(self.used, self.cur+1)
> >     def isfull(self):
> >         self.used == self.size_max
> >
> > Feel free to try this version against whatever benchmark you have in
> mind.
>
> What does this provide that collections.deque(maxlen=size_max)
> doesn't? I'm a little lost.
>

​I was merely re-implementing the "clever" code in a slightly less clever
way, for the same performance, to demonstrate that there's no need to
assign to __class__.

collections.deque is about 5x faster.
(My simple benchmark tests the cost of x.append(i))

- p​



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