Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Right, I'll do some test with the hardcoded values you mentioned. > Btw, I don't think -0.0 is worth it, that value is a typical > arithmetic result and not something you typically get from input data.
I was suggesting -0.0 in the hope that it might make the patch a bit simpler, but I was probably wrong: you still have to test the float's sign to distinguish between the two values. > Also, while interning in python is certainly possible, perhaps it > would make sense to implement such in c. I think it makes sense in the float implementation if it doesn't significantly decrease performance. I suggest you post the benchmark numbers (see http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/ ). Adding a separate builtin/stdlib function would be overkill IMO. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14381> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
