Message 156502 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Message156502

Author kristjan.jonsson
Recipients kristjan.jonsson, michael.foord
Date 2012-03-21.17:47:21
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Message-id 1332352043.3.0.236525644282.issue14381@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
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Michael Foord reminded me of this issue recently. It was discussed on pydev a few years back and met with limited enthusiasm. I speak from experience in live production with EVE that this simple change saved us a lot of memory. Integral floating point numbers are surprisingly common, falling out of mathematical operations and when reading tabular data. 0.0 and 1.0 in particular.
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