On Wed, May 08, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Patch #552433: Special-case tuples. Avoid sub-type checking for lists. > > Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of > > the sequence protocol. > > I've missed the review of this patch. Why bother special-casing > tuples? Who's ever going to iterate over a tuple long enough that it > makes a difference? Define "long enough"; I'm expecting that my BCD module will generate tuples at least a hundred elements. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ See me at OSCON! I'm teaching Python for [Perl] Programmers, a fast intro for all experienced programmers (not just Perl). Early bird ends June 10. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/
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