Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't get the same impressive speedup as you do, although it's still significant.
$ ./python -m timeit "for i in range(100): list(range(1000))" Without patch: 100 loops, best of 3: 5.05 msec per loop With patch: 100 loops, best of 3: 3.57 msec per loop Also, your patch is leaky. I'm attaching a fixed version (for py3k, didn't check the trunk version). ---------- nosy: +pitrou Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9421/py3k_longfreelist2.patch __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2013> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com