Message 242302 - Python tracker

Message242302

Author	pitrou
Recipients	lukasz.langa, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, scoder, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2015-05-01.10:44:15
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<554358FB.3030409@free.fr>
In-reply-to	<1430460598.09.0.779088464881.issue24076@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

Content
Le 01/05/2015 08:09, Stefan Behnel a écrit : > > I don't think it's irrelevant. Throw-away integers are really not uncommon. For-loops use them quite often, non-trivial arithmetic expressions can create a lot of intermediate temporaries. Speeding up the create-delete cycle of PyLong sounds like a very obvious thing to do. That may be a good thing indeed. I'm just saying that the benchmarks people are worried about here are completely pointless.

Content

Le 01/05/2015 08:09, Stefan Behnel a écrit :
> 
> I don't think it's irrelevant. Throw-away integers are really not
uncommon. For-loops use them quite often, non-trivial arithmetic
expressions can create a lot of intermediate temporaries. Speeding up
the create-delete cycle of PyLong sounds like a very obvious thing to do.

That may be a good thing indeed. I'm just saying that the benchmarks
people are worried about here are completely pointless.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2015-05-01 10:44:15	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, scoder, lukasz.langa, serhiy.storchaka
2015-05-01 10:44:15	pitrou	link	issue24076 messages
2015-05-01 10:44:15	pitrou	create