Python 3.6 Is Packed with Goodness

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	Python 3.6 Is Packed with Goodness (infoworld.com)
	29 points by mangeletti 3461 days ago

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raymondh 3461 days ago

FWIW, the article incorrectly attributes the original idea for the compact dictionary to the PyPy team. That team implemented it based on my research, proposal, and proof-of-concept (see https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1... and https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff... ). At one point, they used to refer to the implementation as the RaymondDict and I rather liked that :-)

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mangeletti 3461 days ago

Raymond!

OP (but not author) here.

I watched a talk of yours at Pycon 2011. I very much enjoyed it. I also very much enjoy how amazing Python is, so thank you very much. I have been super excited for 3.6, because speed is one of the things I see is being most important to keep python defensible these days (with Go, et al).

Thanks again for all your hard work.

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