Possible optimisation trick?

[Russ Brown]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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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. :)
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> | But I just saw this on Planet Ubuntu:
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> http://juliank.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/python-speed-x-in-list-vs-x-in-set/
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> | ...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. :)
> |
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> 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).
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> Certainly that is an optimization that we've kept in mind.
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I figured you might have. :)

It was worth mailing about though just in case I suppose.

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Russ.