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Re:Pydis: Redis clone in Python 3 to make points about perfo... by jnwatson on Saturday March 02, 2019 @01:06PM (#19290284)
The Python dictionary implementation is among the most optimized on the planet. Given that Python uses dictionaries for almost everything, very close attention is paid to dictionary performance.
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Re:Pydis: Redis clone in Python 3 to make points about perfo... by benekastah on Saturday March 02, 2019 @02:02PM (#19290566)
That doesn't automatically mean that dictionaries are just as fast with hundreds of thousands or millions of keys. I don't know one way or the other, but it's conceivable that performance could degrade somewhat with large numbers of keys.
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