"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Christian Heimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Terry Reedy wrote: > | > Good idea. I think people who moved to 64 bits to get 64 bits would be > | > upset if they did not ;-). > | > | Windows X64 users still get 32bit ints. The long datatype is 32bit even > | on the 64bit version of Windows. > > Yes, anyone expecting to get 64 bit ints from Windows would be > upset.
Why? Using only 32 bits doesn't make the structure any smaller because of pointer alignment. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
