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"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jul 22 14:52:08 EDT 2008
> That's interesting. It's dumber than I thought. All temporaries
> on the stack are "boxed" as PyObjects. That's simple and portable,
> but slow.
Not only that - Python does not ever have the concept of unboxed
values, except for local variables in the C implementations of
arithmetic operations and system calls.
Using true objects is slow only if allocation and deallocation is
slow, which it fortunately isn't.
Regards,
Martin
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