Performance: sets vs dicts.

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> writes:

> aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>> Possibly; IMO, people should not need to run timeit to determine basic
>> algorithmic speed for standard Python datatypes.
>
> Indeed.  Alex Stepanov (designer of C++ Standard Template Library) was
> emphatic that algorithm complexity assertions should be part of the
> interface of any STL function:
>
>  http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/drdobbs-interview.html
>
> He also said it should be part of the "unwritten contract" between the
> module and its user, but I don't understand why he said "unwritten",
> since in the C++ STL the complexity statements are part of the written
> spec.

The spec is written, not the contract :)

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Arnaud