Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment: > This is safer than enabling the support unconditionally for GCC and > the SUN Pro C compiler, since it is rather likely that some GCC versions > have bugs which could render Python unusable if compiled with the > dispatching support enabled.
What do you mean, "unusable"? 10% slower? Well, Python 3.x is already unusable (compared to 2.x) by that metric... Until now, only Skip has reported a slowdown on his PPC machine, while x86 systems have all seen a positive (if tiny, sometimes) improvement. I fear that with a configure option, disabled by default, the code will get very poor testing and perhaps get broken in some subtle way without anyone noticing. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4753> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
