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On 6/22/2012 5:00 AM, rossum wrote:

 > By all means eleminate boxing if you boxing program runs too slowly,
> but until you have written it, tested it and profiled it to show that
> boxing is the problem then you have no reason to avoid boxing.


Just to interject gently here:  It seems to me that the OP has stated 
that he did experiment with Objects, and confirmed that the overhead was 
too high for his purposes.