Gave issubet() and issuperset() major speed boosts. That's it for now!

Someone else may want to tackle the mutating operations similarly.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/sets.py b/Lib/sets.py
index 4665373..e33464b 100644
--- a/Lib/sets.py
+++ b/Lib/sets.py
@@ -259,8 +259,9 @@ class BaseSet(object):
         self._binary_sanity_check(other)
         if len(self) > len(other):  # Fast check for obvious cases
             return False
+        otherdata = other._data
         for elt in self:
-            if elt not in other:
+            if elt not in otherdata:
                 return False
         return True
 
@@ -269,8 +270,9 @@ class BaseSet(object):
         self._binary_sanity_check(other)
         if len(self) < len(other):  # Fast check for obvious cases
             return False
+        selfdata = self._data
         for elt in other:
-            if elt not in self:
+            if elt not in selfdata:
                 return False
         return True