Performance for testing memberships: list vs tuples vs sets

Sets in Python are often used for two purposes: 1. Removing the duplicate entries in a collection 2. For membership testing. By membership, here we mean to find existence of element in a collection The focus of this post is to evaluate performance of list, tuple and set data structures with respect to each other … Continue reading Performance for testing memberships: list vs tuples vs sets

Measuring Boot Time with BootRacer

 Authors: Chetan Giridhar, Rahul Verma                                               image: http://freedigitalphotos.net/   "Man! It's taking ages to boot-up!" "Why does it take so long to boot-up, that wasn't the case when I bought it!" "Has it really slowed down, or I feel so?" "Should I remove the XYZ tool from start-up to improve boot-up time? I would … Continue reading Measuring Boot Time with BootRacer