[Python-Dev] Optimization of the Year

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 11 11:56:52 EST 2004


Armin Rigo wrote:
> If you make the list API binary-incompatible then obviously the proportion
> will shrink dramatically.

I still plan to introduce size_t/ssize_t as the data type for element
counts in sequences. This will cause severe ABI incompatibilities on
64-bit systems (while causing no change on 32-bit systems).

Regards,
Martin




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