On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:29:42PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 02/ 1/10 01:26 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:17:18PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> Why not use a dict instead here? > > > >Storing the objects in a list uses less space. Since the requests are > >now unique when identified by a url and uuid tuple, it seemed obvious to > >store these as a tuple. Can you explain what you think will be gained > >by using a dict here? It didn't seem like an obvious choice to me. > > A dict or a set would be fine, but checking for a key in a dict > should be faster than checking for a tuple pair in a list. I don't > know about a set.
Ok. I will benchmark different approaches before making a final decision. Thanks, -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
