Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I don't think the order in which the items are hashed is really what Raymond was worried about. Rather, the size of the stack was, and the effect of having all the items on the stack at the same time. I think Raymond is wrong in this case; while the stack may grow relatively big, we're only talking two pointers here. The items will all have to be created anyway, and in the usual case the number of duplicate keys is low.
My patch actually includes pretty much the same change to BUILD_MAP, because it greatly simplifies the compiler code and gets rid of a lot of extra opcodes -- causing an overal speedup even in the face of large dict literals. But I guess we should take it up with Raymond at some point, perhaps as part of the PEP discussion. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2292> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
