On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One way to optimise this (since all we need to support here is counting > rather than arbitrary arithmetic) would be for the longrange iterator to use > some simple pure C fixed point arithmetic internally to keep track of an > arbitrarily long counter, and only convert to a Python long when it has to > (just like the optimised shortrange iterator). > Stop already! It was an ill-considered, throwaway comment, and I apologise for making it. > I'm not sure it is worth the hassle though. > Indeed. Using such a large range is almost certainly not common enough to make it worth optimising... Mark
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