[Python-3000] Free list for small longs

[Brett Cannon]

On Feb 5, 2008 12:13 PM,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Christian> I've implemented a free list for small long objects with a
>     Christian> size of 1 or -1.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "size of 1 or -1".  Do you mean you only keep
> the numbers 1 and -1 on the free list?  It's not obvious to me what a size
> of -1 is.  Do you mean positive and negative numbers which fit in one byte
> or one long word?

I think Christian means single digit integers. But I thought we
already did this for positive numbers? So is the proposal to also
cover negative numbers?

And obviously having a single loop that explicitly tests the
optimization is not exactly indicative of real-world use. =)

-Brett