On 2012-09-19, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > On 09/19/2012 06:24 AM, Pierre Tardy wrote: >> All implementation I tried are much slower than a pure native dict access. >> Each implementation have bench results in commit comment. All of them >> are 20+x slower than plain dict! > > Assuming you're talking about CPython benchmarks, the dict is highly > optimized, C code. And when you provide your own __getitem__ > implementation in pure python, there are many attribute accesses, just to > make the code work. > >> I would like to have python guys advices on how one could optimize this. >
I agree with all of Dave's objections to this idea. It is possible, however, to make a more efficient implementation than the one that you have: class Namespace(dict): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): dict.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) self.__dict__ = self This implementation is not really sane, though, as it doesn't hide any of the dict methods as attributes. It does, however, demonstrate something that be a potentially simple way of making an alternate type object in C. Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list