[Python-Dev] Tagged integers
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jul 15 03:15:57 CEST 2004
James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net>:
> On the test that probably puts my change in the most positive light
> possible: "x = 0; while x < 50000000: x = x + 1", it achieves about a
> 50% increase in speed. More normal integer-heavy things seem to be at
> most 20% faster.
And you have to ask yourself -- how integer-heavy does
typical Python code get?
Most Python code I write deals with higher-level things
most of the time -- strings, lists, dicts, class instances.
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