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Donald Stufft  
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 More options Nov 14 2012, 6:02 pm
From: Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:00:58 -0500
Local: Wed, Nov 14 2012 6:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] performance of {} versus dict()
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$ pypy -m timeit 'dict()'
1000000000 loops, best of 3: 0.000811 usec per loop

$ pypy -m timeit '{}'    
1000000000 loops, best of 3: 0.000809 usec per loop

$ pypy -m timeit 'def md(**kw): return kw; md()'
100000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0182 usec per loop

$ pypy -m timeit -s 'def md(**kw): return kw' 'md()'
1000000000 loops, best of 3: 0.00136 usec per loop

If the difference between dict() and {} is hurting your code why are
you still using CPython.

On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 5:51 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2012-11-14 21:40, Greg Ewing wrote:
> > Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > Perhaps an alternative question: What can be done to make the latter
> > > less unpalatable?

> > * We could introduce a new syntax such as {a = 1, b = 2}.

> > * If the compiler were allowed to recognise builtins, it could
> > turn dict(a = 1, b = 2) into {'a':1, 'b':2} automatically.

> That would be a transformation of the AST, although it assumes that
> 'dict' hasn't been rebound.

> Should there be the option of a warning if a builtin is rebound? Or the
> option of the transformation plus a warning if the builtin is rebound?
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