Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> added the comment: Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > Changing dictionaries is a big deal. You're changing many pieces at once > (not a good idea) including changing tunable parameters that are well-studied > (I spent a month testing whether 5/8 was better idea that 2/3 for resizing or > when the ideal small dict size was 4, 8, or 16). You're changing the meaning > of the fields in dictobject.h which will likely break any code that relied on > those. > > The ideas may be good ones but they warrant a good deal of thought. Dicts > weren't just slapped together -- the current code is the product to two > decades of tweaking by engineers who devoted significant time to the task. > It would be easy to unknowingly undo some of their work. >
OK. I'll write a PEP. By the way, I'm trying not changing the tunable parameters for the unshared-keys case, just the shared-keys case. Of course, they do interact with each other. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13903> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
