Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Ok, now the real use case where it becomes faster: I implemented the > same optimization for bytearray.
The real use case I envision is with huge powers of two. If I write: x = 2 ** 1000000 then all of x's bytes except the highest one will be zeros. If we map those to /dev/zero, it will be a massive saving for programs using huge powers of two. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21233> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
