On 13-12-2008, Michael Foord wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: >> I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. Python >> has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization flag, but we >> know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add psyco as standard >> library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco? >> > > This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev. > > The main reason why not is that someone(s) from the Python core team > would then need to 'own' maintaining Psyco (which is x86 only as well). > Psyco is so hard to maintain that even the original author wants to drop > it. :-)
It could be the killer feature wich will push python3 adoption ;-) Bloggers like so much benchings ! Sorry... -- William Dodé - http://flibuste.net Informaticien Indépendant _______________________________________________ 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
