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Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2012-02-15 15:54 -0700
Subject Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.5864.1329346498.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:11:27 -0800, Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>"The growth pattern is: 0, 4, 8, 16, 25, 35, 46, 58, 72, 88, …"
>>    -- list_resize()
>>
>        Rather perverse, is it not? The first set is plain doubling, but
> then you get a series of increases by:
>
>        ... 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 16,...
>
> or
>
>        100%, 100%, 100%, 56%, 40%, 34%, 30%, 27%, 22%,...
>
>        Big jump form 100% to 56%...

Based on the formula in the code, it would seem to asymptotically
approach 12.5%.

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Complexity question on Python 3 lists Franck Ditter <franck@ditter.org> - 2012-02-15 19:20 +0100
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-15 10:35 -0800
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 11:43 -0700
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-02-15 13:45 -0500
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-02-15 20:01 +0100
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-15 11:11 -0800
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-02-15 15:28 -0500
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-02-15 16:41 -0500
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 15:54 -0700
  Re: Complexity question on Python 3 lists Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-16 00:41 +0000

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