[Python-Dev] More compact dictionaries with faster iteration

Antoine Pitrou

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Le Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:40:30 +0100, Armin Rigo <

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> a écrit : > Hi Raymond, >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Raymond Hettinger > <

raymond.hettinger at gmail.com

> wrote: > > Instead, the data should be organized as follows: > > > > indices = [None, 1, None, None, None, 0, None, 2] > > entries = [[-9092791511155847987, 'timmy', 'red'], > > [-8522787127447073495, 'barry', 'green'], > > [-6480567542315338377, 'guido', 'blue']] >> As a side note, your suggestion also enables order-preserving > dictionaries: iter() would automatically yield items in the order they > were inserted, as long as there was no deletion. People will > immediately start relying on this "feature"... and be confused by the > behavior of deletion. :-/ If that's really an issue, we can deliberately scramble the iteration order a bit :-) (of course it might negatively impact HW prefetching) Regards Antoine.
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