Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Personally I don't like the use of macros inn this code. I think that without them the code would be clearer.
If anyone is interested, here are the statistics for all the standard modules (Lib/__pycache__/*.pyc). UNICODE 105248 61% TUPLE 33193 19% STRING 13527 7.8% INT 7373 4.3% CODE 6438 3.7% NONE 5291 3.1% TRUE 474 0.27% FALSE 401 0.23% BINARY_FLOAT 340 0.2% LONG 60 0.035% FROZENSET 20 0.012% Strings (unicode and bytes), tuples, short ints, code objects and None in sum are 99% of all objects. Mutable collections, complex numbers, Ellipsis and StopIteration are not used at all. If size of compiled modules is a problem, we can get about 10% by using more compact representation for sizes (1- or 2-bytes). This requires additional codes for strings and collections (at least for unicode strings and tuples). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16475> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
