RE Module Performance
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 16:41:41 EDT 2013
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:15 PM, <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... char never consumes or requires more than 4 bytes ...
>
The integer 5 should be able to be stored in 3 bits.
>>> sys.getsizeof(5)
14
Clearly Python is doing something really horribly wrong here. In fact,
sys.getsizeof needs to be changed to return a float, to allow it to
more properly reflect these important facts.
ChrisA
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