Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Le dimanche 29 juin 2008 à 21:52 +0000, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : > Can you propose an implementation strategy that doesn't create the > object, yet still avoids duplication of large chunks of code?
If by "duplicating large chunks of code", you mean creating a separate code path for when the calculated number of digits necessary to hold the int is equal to 1, then I don't have an implementation strategy. I was going to say that creating and then immedietaly releasing a long should not be very costly since longs have a freelist, but then I checked and there is no freelist :-) (although there is a patch to add one in #2013) Anyway, the benefit IMO isn't in speeding up the conversion but in avoiding to store new objects in memory when we can re-use the existing singletons. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3236> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
