Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Bob Ippolito schrieb:
>> My guess is that people do have this problem, they just don't know
>> where that memory has gone. I know I don't count objects unless I have
>> a process that's leaking memory or it grows so big that I notice (by
>> swapping or chance).
>
> Right. Although I do wonder what kind of software people write to run
> into this problem. As Guido points out, the numbers must be the result
> from some computation, or created by an extension module by different
> means. If people have many *simultaneous* copies of 0.0, I would expect
> there is something else really wrong with the data structures or
> algorithms they use.
I suspect the problem would typically stem from floating point values that are
read in from a human-readable file rather than being the result of a
'calculation' as such:
>>> float('1') is float('1')
False
>>> float('0') is float('0')
False
Cheers,
Nick.
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