[Python-ideas] `OrderedDict.sort`

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/25/2013 08:59 AM, Andrew Barnert wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2013, at 21:27, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'll grant that some users might be perfectly happy with O(log N)
>> "reasonably fast" access, but others would not be pleased.
>
> O(log N) is fast enough for the standard mappings in C++, Java, etc., are python users more demanding of performance than C++?

I admit I know next to nothing about C++ and Java, but in Python the dict is ubiquitous: modules have them, classes have 
them, nearly every user defined instance has them, they're passed into functions, they're used for dispatch tables, 
etc., etc..

So I suspect that Python is more demanding of its mapping than the others are.

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~Ethan~