On 4/21/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > If I have some utterly dynamic > > code that comes up with a list of a million ints, and then I pass that > > as an argument to a function that requests the argument type is > > list[int], > > you wrap it in something that checks elements for intness > as you access them. It'll still check a million ints if > you access them all, but that would have to be done anyway > if you were passing the list to fully dynamic code. And > it spreads the cost of doing it out over whatever is > being done with the ints, rather than doing it all up > front. And it doesn't bother checking any ints that you > don't use.
That's the conclusion we reached last time too. Unfortunately the wrapper slows down each access. I guess we could disable all checking when -O is used... -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
