Dinesh: > If you store a large number of integers (keys and values) in a > dictionary, do the Python internals perform integer compression to > save memory and enhance performance? Thanks
Define what you mean with "integer compression" please. It has several meanings according to the context. For example this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_coding (The answer is probably negative). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
