[Python-3000] range() issues

[Mark Dickinson]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> One way to optimise this (since all we need to support here is counting
> rather than arbitrary arithmetic) would be for the longrange iterator to use
> some simple pure C fixed point arithmetic internally to keep track of an
> arbitrarily long counter, and only convert to a Python long when it has to
> (just like the optimised shortrange iterator).
>

Stop already!  It was an ill-considered, throwaway comment, and I apologise
for making it.


> I'm not sure it is worth the hassle though.
>

Indeed.   Using such a large range is almost certainly not common enough to
make it worth optimising...

Mark
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