On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote: > On 15.05.13 14:01, Stefan Drees wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> On 15.05.13 13:32 Christian Tismer wrote: >>> >>> Hi Raymond, >>> >>> On 08.01.13 15:49, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Raymond Hettinger >>>> <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The current memory layout for dictionaries is >>>>> unnecessarily inefficient. It has a sparse table of >>>>> 24-byte entries containing the hash value, key pointer, >>>>> and value pointer. >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> What is the current status of this discussion? >>> I'd like to know whether it is a considered alternative implementation. >>> >>> There is also a discussion in python-ideas right now where this >>> alternative is mentioned, and I think especially for small dicts >>> as **kwargs, it could be a cheap way to introduce order. >>> >>> Is this going on, somewhere? I'm quite interested on that. >> >> >> +1 I am also interested on the status. Many people seemed to have copied >> the recipe from the activestate site (was it?) but I wonder if it maybe was >> to cool to be progressed into "the field" or simply some understandable lack >> of resources? >> > > Right, found the references: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/123028.html > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14664620/python-dictionary-details > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578375-proof-of-concept-for-a-more-space-efficient-faster/?in=user-178123 > > > cheers - chris > > -- > Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tis...@stackless.com> > Software Consulting : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's > Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 121 : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ > 14482 Potsdam : PGP key -> http://pgp.uni-mainz.de > phone +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 (30) 700143-0023 > PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 > whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fijall%40gmail.com
I implemented one for pypy btw (it's parked on a branch for messiness reasons) Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com