[Python-Dev] patch: speed up name access by up to 80%
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:05:05 +0100
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > * Inline small dictionary tables in the PyObject struct and only
> > revert to external tables for larger ones. (I have an old patch
> > for this one which you might want to update)
>
> I may be missing some context, but AFAIK we already do this. See
> dictobject.h: the last item in struct _dictobject is
>
> PyDictEntry ma_smalltable[PyDict_MINSIZE];
Nice :-) I must have missed that addition (or simply forgotten
about it).
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