Performance: sets vs dicts.
Raymond Hettinger
python at rcn.com
Mon Aug 30 02:25:12 EDT 2010
On Aug 29, 12:12 pm, John Nagle <na... at animats.com> wrote:
> Is the "in" test faster for a dict or a set?
> Is "frozenset" faster than "set"? Use case is
> for things like applying "in" on a list of 500 or so words
> while checking a large body of text.
There is no significant difference.
All three are implemented using substantially the same code.
Raymond
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