memory usage multi value hash

Fri Apr 15 04:15:01 EDT 2011

Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/14/2011 12:55 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
>>> I don't expect that it matters much, but you don't need to sort your data
>> if you use a dictionary anyway:
>> Which means that one can build the dict line by line, as each is read,
> instead of reading the entire file into memory. So it does matter for
> intermediate memory use.

Yes, sorry, that was a bit too much handwaving.