The python small ints are immortal with a fixed reference count. For that reason these objects can never reach reference count zero and are never deallocated. We can remove the special casing in long_dealloc. For safety we replace the check with an assert.
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The python small ints are immortal with a fixed reference count. For that reason these objects can never reach reference count zero and are never deallocated. We can remove the special casing in
long_dealloc. For safety we replace the check with an assert.Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
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