Nicko van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not like having this patch is going to force anyone to change > the way they write their code. As far as I can tell it simply offers > better performance if you choose to express your code in some common > ways. If it speeds up pystone by 5.5% with such minimal down side > I'm hard pressed to see a reason not to use it.
This has to wait until Python 2.6 (which is anywhere from 14-24 months away, according to history); including it would destroy binary capatability with modules compiled for 2.5, nevermind that it is a nontrivial feature addition. I also think that the original author (or one of this patch's supporters) should write a PEP outlining the Python 2.5 and earlier drawbacks, what changes this implementation brings, its improvements, and any potential drawbacks. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
