[Python-ideas] Putting `blist` into collections module

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> I have not used blist, but I have no objection to it becoming a
> collections type if the author agrees.
>

While I would be delighted to see blist in the collections package, I worry
that it would create a burden on other implementations of Python.  I did
make a prototype of blist in Python before I wrote the C implementation,
but the performance of the Python version was abysmal in practice.


> which makes blist an optimization, if and when it is available.
>

If someone uses blist, it usually means they're relying on the better
asymptotic performance for certain operations, and the code will be
unacceptably slow when using list.

-- 
Daniel Stutzbach
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