On 8/25/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josiah Carlson wrote: > > > In the integer case, it reminds me of James Knight's tagged integer > > patch to 2.3 [1]. If using long exclusively is 50% slower, why not try > > the improved speed approach? > > looks like GvR was -1000 on this idea at the time, though...
I still am, because it requires extra tests for every incref and decref and also for every use of an object's type pointer. I worry about the cost of these tests, but I worry much more about the bugs it will add when people don't tests first. ABC used this approach and we kept finding bugs due to this problem. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
