On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 09:47:07PM -0700, Alex Kleider wrote:
> Thanks for elucidating this. I didn't know that "several thousand"
> would still be considered a small number.
On a server, desktop, laptop or notepad, several thousand is not many.
My computer can generate a dict with a million items in less than a
second and a half:
py> with Stopwatch():
... d = {n: (3*n+2)**4 for n in range(1000000)}
...
time taken: 1.331450 seconds
and then process it in under half a second:
py> with Stopwatch():
... x = sum(d[n] for n in range(1000000))
...
time taken: 0.429471 seconds
py> x
16200013499990999994000001300000
For an embedded device, with perhaps 16 megabytes of RAM, thousands of
items is a lot. But for a machine with gigabytes of RAM, it's tiny.
--
Steven
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