Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: > In Python I decided to stay away from cleverness except when > extensive performance analysis showed there was a real need to speed > something up. That got us super-fast dicts, for example, and .pyc > files to cache the work of the (slow, but trick-free) parser. For small ints, it also got you the small int cache, which has nearly the same storage requirements as a pointer-as-int, and is probably as expensive (you can drop the tests for odd addresses, but need to add increfs and decrefs for ints). Regards, Martin
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