On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > How about the test suite needs to have 100% test coverage (or as close as > possible) on the pure Python version? That will guarantee that the C code > which passes that level of test detail is as semantically equivalent as > possible. It also allows the other VMs to write their own acceleration code > without falling into the same trap as CPython can.
One other thought: we should probably make a specific exception for pure python code using generators. It is common for generators to defer argument checking until the next() method is called while the C equivalent makes the check immediately upon instantiation (i.e. map(chr, 3) raises TypeError immediately in C but a pure python generator won't raise until the generator is actually run). Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
