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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: heapq</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/heapq.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-12-22T13:07:43+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Speeding up dateutil: Python's heapq module turns minutes into seconds</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/22/heapq/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-12-22T13:07:43+00:00</published><updated>2007-12-22T13:07:43+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/22/heapq/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.brianbeck.com/post/22129050"&gt;Speeding up dateutil: Python&amp;#x27;s heapq module turns minutes into seconds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Neat case study in data structure optimisation.


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