Jan. 16, 2003
2:35 p.m.
From: "Michael Hudson" <mwh@python.net>
integer in the range [-2**30,2**30-1] would be represented by their bit patterns shifted left by 1 bit
all other objects would be boxed, and the address left shifted by 1 and
ORed
with 1.
I seem to recall someone tried that with python quite recently and found it was a pessimization (search python-dev, I guess).
I'm not sure that's what Paul meant, though.
he wrote tagged representation, and there was an e.g. in front of the example above, I don't claim it does wonder, even less together with psyco or with reference counting.