On 10 June 2015 at 17:22, gordon chung <g...@live.ca> wrote: > maybe the suggestion should be "don't blindly apply six.iteritems or items" > rather than don't apply iteritems at all. admittedly, it's a massive eyesore, > but it's a very real use case that some projects deal with large data results > and to enforce the latter policy can have negative effects[1]. one "million > item dictionary" might be negligible but in a multi-user, multi-* environment > that can have a significant impact on the amount memory required to store > everything.
> [1] disclaimer: i have no real world results but i assume memory management > was the reason for the switch in logic from py2 to py3 I wouldn't make that assumption. And no, memory isn't an issue. If you have a million item dict, ignoring the internal overheads, the dict needs 1 million object pointers. The size of a list with those pointers in it is 1M (pointer size in bytes). E.g. 4M or 8M. Nothing to worry about given the footprint of such a program :) -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
