John Ehresman wrote: > * To what extent should non-debugger code use the hook? At one end of > the spectrum, the hook could be made readily available for non-debug use > and at the other end, it could be documented as being debug only, > disabled in python -O, & not exposed in the stdlib to python code.
To explain Collin's mail: Python's dict implementation is crucial to the performance of any Python program. Modules, types, instances all rely on the speed of Python's dict type because most of them use a dict to store their name space. Even the smallest change to the C code may lead to a severe performance penalty. This is especially true for set and get operations. _______________________________________________ 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
