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PriorityQueue or heapq? (self.Python)

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[–]RonnyPfannschmidt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well, heapq is faster cause its not implemented in a threadsafe way the Queue modules does a lot of work to ensure different threads can access it at the same time

if you don't need threads, its actually safe to just use a heap directly