[raymondh]

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 :-)

[mangeletti]

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.