On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Guido.
>
> I *think* part of the reason why our implementation works is that
> machines are significantly different than at the times of Knuth.
> Avoiding cache misses is a very effective way to improve performance
> these days.
>

Right. We might look what Knuth has to say about data structures that are
stored on disk and loaded into memory piecemeal. :-)

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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