[Python-Dev] Tagged integers

[Michael Hudson]

Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> 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.

It's kinda hard to work seriously with lists and strings without
integers :-) This was, at the very least, a worthwhile experiment...

Cheers,
mwh

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