On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > As this discussion has shown, figuring out whether a hash table or a > tree is better for a given problem is non-trivial. My guess is that if > you gave 1000 typical developers both data structures and let them pick > freely, the number of cases where it really mattered and the developer > picked the right one would be approximately equal to the number of cases > where they picked the wrong one.
And both would be utterly dwarfed by the cases where it doesn't matter, and everyone's paying a cost (having to choose) for no benefit. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
