Nick Maclaren schrieb: >> The total count of floating point numbers allocated at this point is 985794. >> Without the reuse, they would be 1317145, so this is a saving of 25%, and >> of 5Mb. > > And, if you optimised just 0.0, you would get 60% of that saving at > a small fraction of the cost and considerably greater generality.
As Michael Hudson observed, this is difficult to implement, though: You can't distinguish between -0.0 and +0.0 easily, yet you should. 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
