On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:49:00AM -0700, Brian Fisher wrote: > On 8/14/06, Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Thanks Brian for writing the very useful benchmark script, I'll be > >keeping an eye on it during development. I expect you'll get the same > >performance I am if you use __slots__, a minor change. > > > Hmmm.. I had tried using __slots__ on the class early on, thinking it > would potentially be the best python thing you could do because then > your attributes are allocated in your object... when I tested it on > python 2.3 on WinXP it seemed to be about the same performance as > using a list member... it disappointed me at the time because I really > thought it was the best way to go... __slots__ is for optimizing memory usage, not speed. Marius Gedminas -- HOST SYSTEM NOT RESPONDING, PROBABLY DOWN. DO YOU WANT TO WAIT? (Y/N)
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