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Author rhettinger
Recipients mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2010-11-13.23:14:17
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FWIW, one way to make a dict denser without increasing the number of probes is to use Brent's Variation of Algorithm D in Knuth.  That optimizes the insertion order to minimize the number of collisions and lets you pack well over two-thirds full without degradation.
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