Eve is indeed based on stackless 2, and are well capable of ignoring changes they don't think they need (or were when I was working with them). At one point I seem to remember they optimised their interpreter to use singleton floating-point values, saving large quantities of memory by having only one floating-point zero.
Steve Holden On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Alex Walters <tritium-l...@sdamon.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Python-Dev <python-dev-bounces+tritium- > > list=sdamon....@python.org> On Behalf Of Victor Stinner > > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 4:01 AM > > To: Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> > > Cc: python-dev <python-dev@python.org> > > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Can I make marshal.dumps() slower but stabler? > > > > 2018-07-12 8:21 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com>: > > >> Is there any real application which marshal.dumps() performance is > > >> critical? > > > > > > EVE Online is a well known example. > > > > EVE Online has been created in 2003. I guess that it still uses Python > 2.7. > > > > I'm not sure that a video game would pick marshal in 2018. > > > > EVE doesn't use stock CPython, IIRC. They use a version of stackless 2, > with their own patches. If a company is willing to patch python itself, I > don't think their practices should be cited without more context about what > they actually modified. > > > Victor > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list > > Python-Dev@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/tritium- > > list%40sdamon.com > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > steve%40holdenweb.com >
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