a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > When dealing with small N, O() can get easily swamped by the constant > factors. How often do you deal with more than a hundred fields?
The number of fields in the OP's post was not stated. Expecting it to be less than 100 seems like an ill-advised presumption. If N is unknown, speed-tuning the case where N is small at the expense of consuming monstrous amounts of memory when N is large sounds somewhere between a premature optimization and a nasty bug. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
