[Python-Dev] Document performance requirements?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 13:59:56 CEST 2006


On Friday 21 July 2006 7:49 am, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > For a recent project I needed to select a container.  There are plenty of
> > python data structures to choose from.  It seems that information on
> > performance is missing (or not easy to find).
> >
> > I think Python should include performance in the documentation of common
> > data structures to help users select the appropriate types.  Something in
> > the style of c++ STL.
>
> Do you mean absolute performance, or do you mean algorithmic order
> guarantees? I thought the latter were already documented. . .
>

The latter.  Where are they documented?


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