Benchmark config lookup

benchmark.py

import timeit
import string
from itertools import combinations

ITERATIONS = 10000

TASK = 'task:'
d = {TASK + letter: True for letter in 'A'}
task_names = [''.join(x) for x in combinations(string.ascii_letters, 2)]
print(f'Number of tasks: {len(task_names)}')

current='''
for task_name in task_names:
    key = TASK + task_name
    d.get(key, False)
'''

alternative='''
for task_name in task_names:
    key = TASK + task_name
    if key in d:
        d[key]
'''

data = locals()

current_time = timeit.timeit(current, globals=data, number=ITERATIONS)
alternative_time = timeit.timeit(alternative, globals=data, number=ITERATIONS)
speedup = (alternative_time - current_time) / current_time * 100
print(f'Speedup {speedup:.2f}%')
print(f'Baseline duration: {current_time/ITERATIONS*1e3:.2}ms')
print(f'Alternative duration: {alternative_time/ITERATIONS*1e3:.2}ms')

Number of tasks: 1326
Speedup -30.40%
Baseline duration: 0.25ms
Alternative duration: 0.18ms