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> Python's object model that can be summarized as "everything is a dict with string keys". Given this "it's dicts all the way down" nature of CPython, I'm curi
by Qem 1y ago
> Python's object model that can be summarized as "everything is a dict with string keys".
Given this "it's dicts all the way down" nature of CPython, I'm curious if the recent hash table theoretical breakthrough[1] discussed here[2] a few months ago may eventually help making it much faster, given the compounding of dict upon dict?
[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-yea...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511