[Python-Dev] PATCH: Fast globals/builtins lookups for 2.6 (original) (raw)

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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