On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Nikita Nemkin wrote: >> >> Sorry, accidental early send. Previous mail continued... >> >> [None] * N makes an extra pass over the list to assign None to each item >> (and also incref None n times). > > > Maybe this could be optimised by adding N to the reference > count instead of incrementing it N times?
I'd be surprised if the C compiler doesn't. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/1d4849f9e37d/Objects/listobject.c#l515 _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
