Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
by dalke on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:45PM
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Those are excellent points. In the context of CPython, Guido van Rossum made the design decision to not use tagged objects, based on experience with ABC implementation, which did.
I just realized though that since the patch to support tagged integers is small, a closed system like the CCP Games distribution of Python, which has no extensions they don't control, might be able to use this idea.
See https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/04614... .
I just realized though that since the patch to support tagged integers is small, a closed system like the CCP Games distribution of Python, which has no extensions they don't control, might be able to use this idea.