On 2014-03-11 03:24, Chris Angelico wrote: > Imagine, worst case, all one million records have the same > song/user/add_time and you need to do twenty comparisons involving > four fields. That's gotta be worse than one hashing of five fields.
And if you have one million songs that are indistinguishable, you have Pop Top-40 playlists. And that is *definitely* worse than hashes OR trees. :-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list