On May 25, 9:43 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Is there any place outside the actual C source for Python that has > | information about the performance of Python's built-in operations? > > Unfortunately no. Guido does not want to put guarantees in the language > definition, so there is no urgency to document this. An auxiliary doc > might be accepted. But the people who could write such a thing are busy > doing otherwise. Certainly, no one has volunteered to write *and update* > such.
I see. Just to be clear, though, I wasn't looking for "guarantees" as such, like (I believe) the STL sometimes provides. I was just looking for some idea of what current implementations' performance characteristics are. I suppose I could probably create such a resource. Keeping it updated would be another thing entirely, since I don't really want to monitor every single commit to Python's svn repository. Hypothetically, if someone made such a document, do you think it could be arranged for that person to be notified whenever CPython's implementation changes to invalidate it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
