Possible optimisation trick?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Russ Brown wrote:
| Apologies if this is old news to you highly experienced Python
| developers, I'm not intending to insult anyone by suggesting this. :)
|
| But I just saw this on Planet Ubuntu:
|
| http://juliank.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/python-speed-x-in-list-vs-x-in-set/
|
| ...and wondered if it might be of use in helping to improve bzr's
| performance?
|
| I'm not particularly well versed in Python optimisation techniques so
| this was completely new to me. Again, apologies if it's well-known
| already and completely useless as a result. :)
|

We've had places in our code that had x in list, but we've generally caught them
an changed them to x in set(list).

Certainly that is an optimization that we've kept in mind.

John
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