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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:39:22 -0500
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On 08/09/12 17:26, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> I'm glad you're wrong for CPython's dictionaries.  The only time the
> lookup would degenerate to O[n] would be if the hash table had only one
> slot.  CPython sensibly increases the hash table size when it becomes
> too small for efficiency.
> 
> Where have you seen dictionaries so poorly implemented?

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