On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 06:22:34PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 15/06/20 5:11 pm, Steve Barnes wrote:
> 
> >Of course if we had a NaN value for integers, int('NaN'), then we could 
> >just set the initial count to it and since NaN - anything = NaN all would 
> >be golden.
> 
> Or we could use floating-point reference counts...

Remind me again, was the aim to speed up the interpreter or slow it 
down? 

:-)


-- 
Steven
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