Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > > > I recommend that __hash__ should use functools.lru_cache for caching. > > Why would you do such a thing? A hash value is a single 64-bit slot, no > > need to add the memory consumption of a whole dictionary and the runtime > > cost of a LRU eviction policy when you can simply cache the hash in the > > object itself (like we already do for strings)... > > It was a joke (I think). Taking into account the fact that LRU cache > uses a hashtable and need to calculate the hash of arguments (i.e., the > Decimal self) to get the cached value of hash.
Damn. Shame on me for not understanding Raymond's humour :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14478> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
