Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Greg Ewing schrieb: >>Also it means you'd pay a penalty every time you >>access it > > That penalty is already paid today.
You'd still have that penalty, *plus* the overhead of bit masking to get at the value. Maybe that wouldn't be noticeable among all the other overheads, though. -- 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