On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:54:36 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > However, it seems from the rest of your comments that speed is your main > concern. Last time someone reported __slots__ didn't make a big > difference in access time, but it probably would speed up creating > objects a bit.
Carl probably knows this already, but for the benefit of the Original Poster: __slots__ is intended as a memory optimization, not speed optimization. If it speeds up creation, that's a serendipitous side-effect of using less memory. > Of course, you should profile it to make sure. Absolutely. Can I ask the OP how large is "large" in the Large Data Sets? What seems large to people is often not large at all a modern computer. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
