New submission from Christian Heimes: The patch adds a free list of long objects with size 1 or -1. It has quite a tremendous effect on code like list(range(1000)).
$ ./python -m timeit "for i in range(100): list(range(1000))" Without patch: 10 loops, best of 3: 79 msec per loop With patch: 10 loops, best of 3: 20.8 msec per loop ---------- components: Interpreter Core files: long_freelist.patch keywords: patch messages: 62060 nosy: tiran priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Long object free list optimization versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9355/long_freelist.patch __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2013> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
