Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > I'm aware of this. Doesn't change the fact that the *INITIAL INDEX* is > based on exactly what I said. > > Yaknow?
What you're saying is that CPython heavily prefers the low-order bits to be unique performance-wise. I don't know why that particular heuristic bias was chosen. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list