[pypy-dev] Re: [ann] Minimal Python project
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Thu Jan 16 15:06:10 CET 2003
"Samuele Pedroni" <pedronis at bluewin.ch> writes:
> 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.
Cheers,
M.
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