[Python-Dev] More compact dictionaries with faster iteration

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:22:27 +0200
Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Thanks raymond for writing down a pure python version ;-)
> 
> I did an initial port to RPython for experiments. The results (on
> large dicts only) are inconclusive - it's either a bit faster or a bit
> slower, depending what exactly you do. There is a possibility I messed
> something up too (there is a branch rdict-experiments in PyPy, in a
> very sorry state though).

But what about the memory consumption? This seems to be the main point
of Raymond's proposal.

Regards

Antoine.