list 和 deque

python的list是动态数组(Dynamic array - Wikipedia)。

Python里面的Doubly linked list(双向链表)是用 collections 模块里的 deque。

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> python -mtimeit -s 'import collections' -s 'c = collections.deque(xrange(1, 100000000))' 'c.pop()'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.11 usec per loop

> python -mtimeit -s 'c = range(1, 100000000)' 'c.pop()'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.174 usec per loop

> python -mtimeit -s 'import collections' -s 'c = collections.deque()' 'c.appendleft(1)'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.116 usec per loop

> python -mtimeit -s 'c = []' 'c.insert(0, 1)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 36.4 usec per loop