On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 19:30, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please also note that CPython uses a freelist of unused dict instances. > The default size of the dict free list is 80 elements. The allocation > and deallocation of dicts is cheap if you can stay below the threshold.
That's very useful information. Thanks! -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion