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Python is just a pile of dicts/hashtables under the hood. Even the basic
int
type is actually a dict of method names:PS: I will never get away from the fact that user-space memory addresses are also basically keys into the page table, so it is hashtables all the way down - you cannot escape them.
audible C++ programmer disgust
js is similar, though it does not include python's precalculated numbers
calculates integers from -5 to 256, see: