Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > By the way CPython's list type does more than log(N) resize ops:
Obviously it's an asymptotic complexity, not a hard number. > I understand the proposal as a power user tool. Most people don't > need a pneumatic hammer, an ordinary hammer suffices. But in some > cases you need a tool with more power. "CPython doesn't gain much > from the new API, let's not add it to Python" isn't nice to other > implementations that may benefit from it. I'd still like to see concrete use cases, not micro-benchmarks. ---------- title: Add length_hint parameter to list, dict, set constructors to allow efficient presizing -> Add length_hint parameter to list, dict, set constructors to allow efficient presizing _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17338> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
