[Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:13:54 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 
> This also shows that a micro-benchmark that merely looks ok can actually
> be a terrible proxy of actual performance.

... unless all your dicts have their key objects nicely arranged
sequentially in heap memory, of course.

Regards

Antoine.