[issue2013] Long object free list optimization

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes added the comment:

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Christian, maybe you did your measurements with the DEBUG flag turned
> on? That would explain the discrepancy.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure the patch is useful for 2.x since long objects with
> size -1 or 1 should be represented as ints instead :-)

Yes, I've used a Py_Debug build to measure the speed difference.

You are right. The patch makes no sense for the 2.x series.

Christian

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