Adam Olsen wrote: > How plausible would it be to optimize all exception instantiation? > Perhaps use slots and a freelist for everything inheriting from > BaseException and not inheriting from other builtin types?
I'm not sure a free list would help much for instances of user define classes, since creating one involves setting up a dict, etc. And if you use __slots__ you end up with objects of different sizes, which isn't free-list-friendly. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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
