On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 04:46:00PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > I agree that conflating the two doesn't help the discussion. > While removing docstrings may be beneficial on memory-constrained > devices, I can't remember a single situation where I've wanted to > remove asserts on a production system. > > (I also tend to write less and less asserts in production code, since > all of them tend to go in unit tests instead, with the help of e.g. > mock objects)
I'm the opposite. I like using asserts in my code, and while I don't *typically* run it with -O, I do think it is valuable to have to opportunity to remove asserts. I've certainly written code where -O has given a major micro-optimization of individual functions (anything up to 50% speedup). I've never measured if that lead to a significant whole-application speedup, but I assume that was some benefit. (I know, premature optimization and all that...) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
