> >So perhaps the refcnt should have been a long in the first place. A > >similar argument may hold for the length of e.g. strings and lists: > >one could wish to have a list of more than 2 billion elements, or a > >string containing more than 2 gigabytes (that much RAM is easily found > >on the larger 64-bit servers, I believe). > > > >Opinions? > > If you change to longs it seems the reported > performance increase goes away, which would > seem to eliminate one of the motivations for > accepting the pain of a binary incompatibility. > > Leaving just "getting it right". Yup. That's why I think it might have to be a 3-valued config option, relevant for 64-bit machines only: "compat", "optimal", or "right". --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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