On 12/11/2011 11:17 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Lie Ryan<lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/09/2011 10:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Except for people who needed dicts with tens of millions of items.
who should be using a proper DBMS in any case.
Not necessarily. "Database" usually implies disk-based and relational,
features that may well be quite superfluous; and a pure-memory
database with no relational facilities... is basically a dict. So why
not use one?
It is very unlikely you'd have millions of items in a dict and you're
not planning to do any data processing at all. In any case, there are
very few use cases which requires the use of a dict with millions of
items that wouldn't be better served by a proper database.
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