> I can say with complete certainty that of the 20+ programmers I've had > working for me, many who have used Python for 3+ years, not a single one > would think to question the garbage collector if they observed the kind > of quadratic time complexity I've demonstrated. This is not because > they are stupid, but because they have only a vague idea that Python > even has a garbage collector, never mind that it could be behaving badly > for such innocuous looking code. > > Maybe we should consider more carefully before declaring the status quo > sufficient.
This was precisely my question: What follows from the above observation? I personally didn't declare the status quo sufficient - I merely declared it as being the status quo. > Average developers do allocate millions of objects in > bursts and super-linear time complexity for such operations is not > acceptable. Thankfully I am around to help my programmers work around > such issues or else they'd be pushing to switch to Java, Ruby, C#, or > whatever since Python was inexplicably "too slow" for "real work". This > being open source, I'm certainly willing to help in the effort to do so, > but not if potential solutions will be ruled out as being unnecessary. I wouldn't rule out solutions as being unnecessary. I might rule out solutions that negatively impact existing software, for the sake of improving other existing software. Unfortunately, the only way to find out whether a solution will be ruled out is to propose it first. Only then you'll see what response you get. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
