On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:57:55PM -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014, at 14:46, Jim J. Jewett wrote: > > (1) I believe the recent consensus was that the number of comparisons > > made in a dict lookup is an implementation detail. (Please correct me > > if I am wrong.) > > Absolutely. > > > > > (2) Is "the item will be hashed at least once" a language guarantee? > > No. (Would that be useful at all?)
I'm curious under what circumstances a key won't be hashed at all. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
