Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:22:29 am Mark Dickinson wrote: >> The obvious way to do this nan interning for floats would be to put >> the interning code into PyFloat_FromDouble. I'm not sure whether >> this would be worth the cost in terms of added code (and possibly >> reduced performance, since the nan check would be done every time a >> float was returned), but I'd be willing to review a patch. > > I hope that it's obvious from my previous post that I do NOT want such > interning done, but since I put the idea in people's heads, I wish to > reiterate that I'm against the idea: -1 on interning NaNs. For the rare > application where it might be useful, it is easy to do in the > application code.
Yep, and I'll freely admit I didn't know about the potential additional state on NaN values, or I wouldn't have suggested interning automatically. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
