Dec. 4, 2003
8:35 p.m.
Or, since we're talking implementation, we could use the following hack, which I borrowed from Standard ML of New Jersey: [...]
This is a well-known scheme. We used it in ABC 20 years ago. My experience with it was negative though: there were too many core dumps because some code was dereferencing a pointer without checking the low bit. So I'd rather not try this. I also somehow doubt that the speed gains are that significant. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)