On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:12 AM, sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> wrote: > On 4 Jul, 10:03, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > >> Sort of. One of the major differences is the "number" type, which is (by >> default) a floating point type - there is no other type for numbers. The >> main reason why Python is slow for arithmetic computations is its integer >> type (int in Py3, int/long in Py2), which has arbitrary size and is an >> immutable object. So it needs to be reallocated on each computation. > > That is why Lua got it right. A floating point type has a mantissa and > can duck type an integer. MATLAB does the same.
I sincerly doubt it - where do take the information that matlab use float to represent int ? It would not be able to represent the full range of 64 bits integer for example. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
