[Python-Dev] Tagged integers

[Greg Ewing]

James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net>:

> On the test that probably puts my change in the most positive light 
> possible: "x = 0;  while x < 50000000:  x = x + 1", it achieves about a 
> 50% increase in speed. More normal integer-heavy things seem to be at 
> most 20% faster.

And you have to ask yourself -- how integer-heavy does
typical Python code get?

Most Python code I write deals with higher-level things
most of the time -- strings, lists, dicts, class instances.

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