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Comment by alecthomas

> Right, the startling thing about Python's previous dict was that it was so terrible that the ordered dict was actually significantly faster.

I've never heard that before and it would be really surprising, given that Python's builtin dict is used for everything from local symbol to object field lookup. Do you have more information?

parent alecthomas 4 years ago

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