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Good summary. But I disagree with the author that immutable strings and ubiquitous hashes are merely unfortunate idioms of python - to me python is about simpli
by ealloc 13y ago
Good summary. But I disagree with the author that immutable strings and ubiquitous hashes are merely unfortunate idioms of python - to me python is about simplicity, and those things are what make python conceptually simple. I don't have to worry about clobbered buffers, nor about datastructure semantics besides simple hashes.
- cbsmith 13y agoThe performance impact of the hashes is bad enough that people tweak designs in most unfortunate ways... I think a case can be made that it is more important that the solution be simple and clean.