[Python-Dev] PATCH: Fast globals/builtins lookups for 2.6

[Neil Toronto]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Neil Toronto wrote:
>> Speaking of which, here's a question for everybody. I was wondering 
>> whether 64 bits is necessary. It takes an hour of concerted effort - 
>> nothing but "module.d = 1; del module.d" for an hour straight - to 
>> overflow a 32-bit version number. Is anybody going to actually get close 
>> to doing that in a global namespace?
>>
> Of course not. And 640k is as much memory as anyone could reasonably 
> need ...

Point taken - forget I asked.

Neil