In article <[email protected]>, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Why is count() [i.e. collections.Counter] so slow? > > It's within a factor of 2 of test, and 3 of exception or default (give or > take). I don't think that's surprisingly slow. It is for a module which describes itself as "High-performance container datatypes" :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
