[Python-Dev] Dictionary sparseness

[Guido van Rossum]

> I used madvise extensively (and quite successfully) back when I was
> the senior software consultant responsible for the lower-levels of a
> variety of Unix-system ports of a line of mechanical CAD products.
> And I loved and still love the general concept -- let me advise an
> optimizer (so it can do whatever -- be it a little or a lot --
> rather than spend energy trying to guess what in blazes I may be
> doing:-).

Hm.  How do you know that you were succesful?  I could think of an
implementation that's similar to those "press to cross" buttons you
see at some intersections, and which seem to have no effect whatsoever
on the traffic lights. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)