18 Oct
2016
18 Oct
'16
5:03 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal chris.barker@noaa.gov wrote:
The proposal is that it should be documented as being part of the language spec starting in 3.4 (or whatever).
Is the performance characteristics of any object part of the language spec?
I.e if someone wrote an implementation with an O(n) insert dict, it would suck, but wouldn't it still be Python?
This exact question came up when MicroPython wanted to represent Unicode strings internally as UTF-8. It was decided that having O(n) indexing/slicing was acceptable, and was something that the implementation could judge the value of. (Since uPy is designed for smaller systems than CPython is, O(n) is less significant.)
ChrisA