[pypy-dev] SmallTuples

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/5/25 Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com>:
> I have a question about SmallTuples.  Why do we have multiple classes,
> rather than doing the "hack" of mallocing a single block of memory for the
> entirety of the object, since it is immutable and we can know the needed
> space up front, CPython uses this "hack" for strs for example.

What do you mean by that? Isn't having multiple classes the RPython
equivalent of this hack?



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Regards,
Benjamin