On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Aaron Brady <castiro...@gmail.com> wrote: > We could use a Python long object for the version index to prevent overflow. > Combined with P. Rubin's idea to count the number of open iterators, most use > cases still wouldn't exceed a single word comparison; we could reset the > counter when there weren't any.
We could use a Python long; I just don't think the extra overhead is justified in a data structure that is already highly optimized for speed. Incrementing and testing a C int is *much* faster than doing the same with a Python long. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
