[Python-3000] Python-3000 Digest, Vol 2, Issue 151

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 18:14:00 CEST 2006


On 4/26/06, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> That's why I said "*significantly* more efficient" : I think both 3-int
> lists and 3-int sets are fast enough, aren't they ?

Raymond H should answer this; my memory is that he changed some
library code (or the compiler as a peephole optimization?) to use
frozensets instead of listeral lists or tuples -- and then changed it
back, because for 3 item sets, it was a loss.

-jJ


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