Ross Cohen wrote: > The first thing any user of the poll interface does with the file descriptor > is map it to some state object. That's where the lookup can be saved, the > object can just be handed back directly. Problem being that when the fd is > unregistered, we won't get back the PyObject pointer so can't decrement > the refcount, has to be stored and looked up manually.
Ah. That would be an interface change; I would not do that. The lookup is usually-constant and very fast. It is complexity that grows with the number of file descriptors that these APIs worry about. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
