[Python-checkins] r51492 - in python/branches/int_unification: Include/boolobject.h Include/intobject.h Include/longobject.hModules/_sre.c Objects/abstract.c Objects/boolobject.cObjects/exceptions.c Objects/intobject.c Objects/listobject.c Obje

[M.-A. Lemburg]

martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
> Zitat von "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com>:
> 
>> I was actually thinking of adding the PyLong implementation
>> as special case to PyInts, ie. appending the digits array
>> to the PyInt struct and making PyInts VarObjects. A size 0
>> PyInt would then be the classical PyInt, a size n (n>0)
>> PyInt would work as a classical PyLong.
> 
> That's my plan,

Good.

Looking at the checkin, it seemed to me that you were
trying to use the long digit array as basis for everything.

> except that the special case is the small
> integers, not the large ones.

No need to fight over that detail :-)

> Before responding that you
> would like to see it the other way 'round, please analyze
> what the ACTUAL difference between your approach and mine
> would be.

None, except less work: you now move/rename everything to the PyLong
implementation, only to then rename everything back to PyInt
later on.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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