Re: [Python-Dev] Removing tp_compare?

Don't you rememeber the PC:s in the late 1980th? It was based on Intel's 80286-processor, and Microsoft's C compiler supported three or four different memory models, called things like "TINY", "SMALL", "LARGE", and "HUGE". Most of these memory models had different sized data and function pointers.

I don't think this is factually correct: - tiny, small: code and data each 16 bit - large, huge: code and data each 32 bit - medium: code 32 bit, data 16 bit - compact: code 16 bit, data 32 bit So most of the memory models (66%) have same-sized data and function pointers, only few of them (33%) have them differently-sized. In any case, I don't think Python supports 8086 segmented mode in any reasonable way today. Regards, Martin