On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:37 AM Joseph Martinot-Lagarde <
contreba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Both suggested implementations are very interesting. If I'm not wrong they
> have exactly the same behavior (except for __dict__).
>
pretty close, yes -- probably differences with pickling, and if you did an
type checking, very different.
Performance-wise with a quick test I get the following results:
>
> t = (1, 2)
> print("sizeof", sys.getsizeof(t)) # 56
> print("sizeof type", sys.getsizeof(type(t))) # 408
> print(timeit.timeit("(1, 2)")) # ~0.01
>
> nt = namedtuple("nt", ["x", "y"])
> print("sizeof", sys.getsizeof(nt(1, 2))) # 56
> print("sizeof type", sys.getsizeof(type(nt(1, 2)))) # 896
> print(timeit.timeit("nt(1, 2)", setup="from __main__ import nt")) # ~0.2
>
> pt = atuple(x=1, y=2)
> print("sizeof", sys.getsizeof(pt)) # 56
> print("sizeof type", sys.getsizeof(type(pt))) # 896
> print(timeit.timeit("atuple(x=12, y=16)", setup="from __main__ import
> atuple")) # ~0.8
>
> point = TupleWithNames(x=1, y=2)
> print("sizeof", sys.getsizeof(point)) # 64
> print("sizeof type", sys.getsizeof(type(point))) # 1064
> print(timeit.timeit("TupleWithNames(x=12, y=16)", setup="from __main__
> import TupleWithNames")) # ~0.8
>
you have to be careful with getsizeof() -- I don't think it digs into
nested objects. Anyway, it would certainly require a close look.
The timing performance of both solutions is roughly the same given the
> measurament variation,
That surprises me -- a tuple has to call namedtuple, and there's a lot of
work done in there -- very odd. I guess that's why we have to profile, but
I'd still give that a closer look.
> but way slower than tuple an namedtuple.
>
well, with namedtuple, you aren't taking into account the creation of the
class -- so if you make thousands of the same one, yes, but if you make
only a couple, then not so much.
> TupleWithNames is a bit more memory hungry than atuple and namedtuple, but
> there is only one type so if I understand correctly it would be a win for
> multiple instances.
>
I think so -- at least of atuple -- though one could create a cache of
namedtuples so that atuple would reuse an existing one if was already there.
Maybe there is room for optimisation in both cases ?
>
I"m sure -- namedtuple use sys.intern on the names, that would help. and I
tried to use __slots__ in TupleWithNames (sorry for that horrible name ;-)
), but apparently you can't use __slots__ in a tuple subclass ('cause
tuple's already using it ??) -- but that could be done in a builtin. then
it wouldn't need a __dict__
There's also various options for storing the fields -- I only tried the
first one I thought of.
This reminds me -- it would be kinda cool if there was an easier, more
robust way to make an immutable in Python -- maybe a frozendict for
__dict__?
Anyway, if someone wants to take this further, I'd be glad to help.
-CHB
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