[Python-Dev] PATCH: Fast globals/builtins lookups for 2.6
Neil Toronto
ntoronto at cs.byu.edu
Fri Nov 30 17:14:04 CET 2007
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
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