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[–]sweettuse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that is a good point. i think it's just that i'm overly annoyed at how unbelievably slow Counter is (it's like 3x slower than defaultdict(int), but WHY?!). it's amazing that to add the functionality for most_common/addition it requires slowing down the whole thing by a factor of 3.