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by Qem 342 days ago
> Python's object model that can be summarized as "everything is a dict with string keys".

Given this "it's dicts all the way down" nature of CPython, I'm curious if the recent hash table theoretical breakthrough[1] discussed here[2] a few months ago may eventually help making it much faster, given the compounding of dict upon dict?

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-yea...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511