Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > However, my tests do show that something is funny with the current > freelist implementation for floats on at least 2 platforms, and that > doing without that sort of optimisation for float objects would likely > not be a hardship with PyMalloc.
float objects are slightly larger than int objects. On a 32bit OS both have ob_type pointer of size 4, a ref counter of size 4. But an int object has a value of type long with 4 bytes and a float stores its value in a double with size 8. I assume that the difference in size leads to a different allocation timing. Christian _______________________________________________ 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
