Nick Coghlan schrieb: >> Right. Although I do wonder what kind of software people write to run >> into this problem. As Guido points out, the numbers must be the result >> from some computation, or created by an extension module by different >> means. If people have many *simultaneous* copies of 0.0, I would expect >> there is something else really wrong with the data structures or >> algorithms they use. > > I suspect the problem would typically stem from floating point values > that are read in from a human-readable file rather than being the result > of a 'calculation' as such:
That's how you can end up with 100 different copies of 0.0. But apparently, people are creating millions of them, and keep them in memory simultaneously. Unless the text file *only* consists of floating point numbers, I would expect they have bigger problems than that. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
