[Jim Jewett] > I thought you tried changing those tuples to frozensets >(because it was semantically better), and found that it > didn't actually win for tuples of length 2 or 3.
The sets were faster. The automatic transformation didn't go in because it changed semantics -- the searched for item would need to be hashable -- the tuple search only requires an equality test. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
