24 Aug
2006
24 Aug
'06
11:23 a.m.
Tim Peters wrote:
Note that there are already three PEPs related to speeding dict-based namespace access; start with:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0280/
which references the other two.
The "normal path" through dict lookups got faster since there was a rash of those, to the extent that more complication elsewhere got much less attractive. It's possible that dict lookups got slower again since /then/, though.
Thanks! Looks like i'm only proposing what is already there in pep-267 by Jeremy Hylton. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0267/ cheers [sreeram;]