From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" Date: 2010-02-17T03:16:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Parallel assignments vs. Serial assigments On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Robert Klemme wrote: > On 02/15/2010 05:50 PM, Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote: >> >> 2010/2/15 Jesús Gabriel y Galán : >>> >>> I think it might be because the parallel assigment creates an array >>> under the hood? > > However it is done technically, parallel assignment needs more space because > it has to evaluate *all* right hand sides before doing any assignments. >  Otherwise swapping would not be possible > > a, b = b, a Good point. > So, yes, it's likely an Array under the hood Yep, that was my thought and that's why I checked with ObjectSpace, that indeed shows Arrays being created. It was easier for me than checking the implementation :-). Jesus.