In article <51f5843f$0$29971$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > Why is count() [i.e. collections.Counter] so slow? > > It's within a factor of 2 of test, and 3 of exception or default (give or > take). I don't think that's surprisingly slow. It is for a module which describes itself as "High-performance container datatypes" :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
