[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS, 1.936, 1.937

[Michael Hudson]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> writes:

> mwh at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>> Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
>> In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv3489/Misc
>> Modified Files:
>> 	NEWS Log Message:
>> "Fix" (for certain configurations of the planets, including
>> recent gcc on Linux/x86)
>> [ 899109 ] 1==float('nan')
>> by implementing rich comparisons for floats.  
>
> Have you benchmarked this change ?

No.  Hadn't even occurred to me.

A unscientific test suggests a slowdown of about 1 percent for '1.0 !=
2.0' and a speed up of about the same for '1.0 == 1.0'.

> Rich comparisons sound a lot like overhead and the case you
> are trying to fix here isn't exactly a common one.

Doesn't look like it makes much odds here.

Cheers,
mwh

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