Dicts 5x Faster than Sets

[Kamilche]

Hm, I just saw the 'sets' feature, and ran some timings to see if I
should use it instead of 'dict' sometimes. I discovered it's 4x slower
in adding, and 6x slower in removing items!

Here's the code, in case you're interested.

from sets import Set
import mytime

'''
     Set Slower than Dict

     Sample results:

     Function       Loops       Seconds   Loops/sec  
     ***********************************************
     Set add         1000000      1.391      718907 
     Set delete      1000000       1.14      877193 
     Dict add        1000000      0.344     2906975 
     Dict delete     1000000      0.172     5813955 

'''

def test():
    tmr = mytime.Timer()
    max = 1000000
    s = range(max)
    print tmr.heading
    
    s1 = Set()
    tmr.startit()
    for i in s:
        s1.add(i)
    tmr.stopit(max)
    print tmr.results('Set add')
    tmr.startit()
    for i in s:
        s1.remove(i)
    tmr.stopit(max)
    print tmr.results('Set delete')
    

    tmr.startit()
    s2 = {}
    for i in s:
        s2[i] = i
    tmr.stopit(max)
    print tmr.results('Dict add')
    tmr.startit()
    for i in s:
        del s2[i]
    tmr.stopit(max)
    print tmr.results('Dict delete')
    
test()