On a related note, there was a patch that I’d written for Python 3.6 to store
code objects in the read only segment of the interpreter binary for faster
interpreter startup.
I’d sent the patch to Larry Hastings, who graciously ported it to Python 3.8
and posted it on bpo[1].
- Jeethu
[1]:
Hm, I remember Greg's free threading too, but that's not the idea I was
trying to recall this time. There really was something about bytecode
objects being loaded from a read-only segment to speed up code loading.
(Much quicker than unmarshalling a .pyc file.) I don't think we ever got
the details
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 04:02, MRAB wrote:
> On 2020-06-20 02:22, Robert DeLanghe wrote:
> > You can already do compact conditional returns with the current syntax:
> >
> > def foo(a, b):
> > return (a != b or None) and a * b
> >
> >
> > or even:
> >
> > foo = (lambda a, b: (a !=
Hi All
Guido wrote:
I remember vaguely that about two decades ago Greg Stein hatched an idea
> for code objects loaded from a read-only segment in shared libraries.
>
[Thank you for this, Guido. Your memory is good.]
Here's a thread from 2009, where Guido said: Greg Stein reached this same
