[Python-Dev] Type of range object members

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Aug 16 01:20:39 CEST 2006


James Y Knight schrieb:
> But it's the short int that you probably really want to make size  
> efficient.

Only if you have many of them. And if you do, you have the problem
of the special-cased allocator: when the many ints go away, Python
will hold onto their memory forever.

Regards,
Martin


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