[Python-Dev] Caching float(0.0) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 10:59:25 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Bob Ippolito schrieb:

My guess is that people do have this problem, they just don't know where that memory has gone. I know I don't count objects unless I have a process that's leaking memory or it grows so big that I notice (by swapping or chance). Right. Although I do wonder what kind of software people write to run into this problem. As Guido points out, the numbers must be the result from some computation, or created by an extension module by different means. If people have many simultaneous copies of 0.0, I would expect there is something else really wrong with the data structures or algorithms they use.

I suspect the problem would typically stem from floating point values that are read in from a human-readable file rather than being the result of a 'calculation' as such:

float('1') is float('1') False float('0') is float('0') False

Cheers, Nick.

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