Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: The current patch gives much smaller benefits than the originally posted benchmarks, although they are still substantial:
$ ./python -m timeit -s "a = set(range(100000)); sd = a.difference; b = set(range(1000))" "sd(b)" - before: 5.56 msec per loop - after: 3.18 msec per loop $ ./python -m timeit -s "a = set(range(1000000)); sd = a.difference; b = set(range(10))" "sd(b)" - before: 67.9 msec per loop - after: 41.8 msec per loop ---------- versions: -Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8685> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com