Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 8/15/06, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>There's no particular reason that a short int must be able to store >>the entire range of C "long", so, as many bits can be stolen from it >>as desired. > > There isn't? Actually a lot of APIs currently assumen that.
Also it means you'd pay a penalty every time you access it, whereas presumably short ints are the case we want to optimise for speed as well. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
