Greg Ewing schrieb: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> I worry that dropping the special allocator will be too slow. > > Surely there's some compromise that would allow > recently-used ints to be kept around, but reclaimed > if memory becomes low?
Hardly. The efficiency of the special-case allocator also comes from the fact that it doesn't ever have to release memory. Just try changing it to see what I mean. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
