On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 1:57 PM Kyle Stanley aeros167@gmail.com wrote:
Add (much faster for dicts):
timeit.timeit("s = set(); s.add(0)", number=100_000_000)
13.330938750001224
timeit.timeit("d = {}; d[0] = None", number=100_000_000)
5.788865385999088
I think this is an artifact of Python not having an empty set literal.
timeit.timeit("s = set(); s.add(0)", number=100_000_000)
13.275540543720126
timeit.timeit("d = dict(); d[0] = None", number=100_000_000)
13.044076398015022
timeit.timeit("d = {}; d[0] = None", number=100_000_000)
6.088695731014013
timeit.timeit("s = {1}; s.add(0)", number=100_000_000)
9.260965215042233
timeit.timeit("d = {1:2}; d[0] = None", number=100_000_000)
8.75433829985559
When both use the constructor call or both use a literal, the difference is far smaller. I'd call this one a wash.
ChrisA