[Python-Dev] Inplace operations for PyLong objects (original) (raw)

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Fri Sep 1 16:05:12 EDT 2017


On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

I'm skeptical there are some programs out there that are limited by the speed of PyLong inplace additions.

indeed, but that could be said about any number of operations.

My question is -- how can the interpreter know if it can alter what is supposed to be an immutable in-place? If it's used only internally to a function, the it would be safe, but how to know that?

-CHB

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