On Jan 24, 11:28 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article <b4440231-f33f-49e1-9d6f-5fbce0a63...@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, > Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > >Even with realloc()'s brokenness, you could improve pop(0) in a way > >that does not impact list access at all, and the patch would not change > >the time complexity of any operation; it would just add negligible > >extract bookkeeping within list_resize() and a few other places. > > Again, your responsibility is to provide a patch and a spectrum of > benchmarking tests to prove it. Then you would still have to deal with > the objection that extensions use the list internals -- that might be an > okay sell given the effort otherwise required to port extensions to > Python 3, but that's not the way to bet.
Ok. > Have you actually read the discussions you were pointed at? I don't think anybody provided an actual link, but please correct me if I overlooked it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
