[Python-Dev] Dictionary sparseness

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:36, Alex Martelli wrote:
> No thanks.  I've paid my dues and I hope I will *NEVER* again have to
> work with a system that thinks it's so smart it doesn't need my advisory
> input -- or at least not on anything that's as performance-crucial as
> those Fortran programs were (most of my work in IBM Research in
> did with Rexx -- that's when I learned to love scripting! -- but then and
> again we did have to crunch really huge batches of numbers).

I think the graybox project is assuming that few people will have the
luxury of working with a system that accepts useful advisory input. 
Given that hypothesis, they built a tool for identifying what algorithm
is being used so that it can be tweaked appropriately.

Jeremy