On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > My claim is that doing this automatically for all integers and/or strings > could lead to prohibitively-expensive performance characteristics, and done > wrong to prohibitively-expensive memory characteristics.
OK. I agree, and I'm not in favor of doing that. It's a nice optimization, there's no point doing it in cases where it leads to _worse_ performance. -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
