Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Memory is not an issue like it was back in 1991 when > this range was originally implemented, so we can go > higher and get a bigger performance boost.
Please don't do this. Memory is still important to a lot of people. Also, there is *very* little payoff for numbers outside the -5 to 256 range. If we're to spend memory, we can do it in other places (like bigger freelists or somesuch). > We should remove the documentation entries that discuss > non-guaranteed implementation details FWIW, I've changed my thinking on this. With documentation, these details are very difficult to find-out about. Instead of removing them, they should be marked as non-guaranteed implementation specific details or they can be moved to a separate section. ---------- assignee: -> rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11846> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
