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Why did lists require less memory? Was it because you only held a subset of keys in the lists?
by angrais 3y ago
Why did lists require less memory? Was it because you only held a subset of keys in the lists?
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoLists in Python have a integer for their size and a pointer for each element. Sets presumably have some number of buckets that are used to put pointers in, but many more buckets are allocated than get used in small sets.