[Python-Dev] Patch #552433
Aahz
aahz@pythoncraft.com
Wed, 8 May 2002 13:01:00 -0400
On Wed, May 08, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > Define "long enough"; I'm expecting that my BCD module will generate
> > tuples at least a hundred elements.
>
> Hm. Creating such a long tuple in Python code will be the bottleneck
> in your program, not iterating over it. Have you benchmarked this
> particular fix? I find it hard to believe that one can even notice
> the difference.
You're probably right, though for long-lived Decimal() instances, I'd
expect many rounds of iteration over the tuple. I was just questioning
what you meant by "long enough". (No benchmark, I'm still not set up
for CVS yet.)
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