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Author	methane
Recipients	ezio.melotti, methane, mrabarnett, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2017-12-18.09:29:45
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Message-id	<1513589385.27.0.213398074469.issue32338@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> We are talking about a dictionary of 512 items in the worst case. On such very tiny collection, benchmarking matters more than O(...) complexity ;-) You're right. Rob Pike said: "Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small." http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

> We are talking about a dictionary of 512 items in the worst case. On such very tiny collection, benchmarking matters more than O(...) complexity ;-)

You're right. Rob Pike said:

"Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small."
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

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