[Python-Dev] big performance hit in the past few days (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:58:19 -0500

[Skip Montanaro, on a recent gross slowdown]

... Any thoughts on the possible cause?

Nope. Barry hasn't checked anything in lately .

It's tough to casually suggest a particular culprit because the bool() stuff touched a lot of files. I can't simply identify a few files that changed in the past few days. I count 66 .c[ch] files new or updated since mid-afternoon April 1.

Do you know about the -D option to cvs update? It's a kind of time machine; you can update to the code as it existed at any specified time (like, say, one minute before mid-afternoon April 1). Alas, unlike Guido's time machine, it's sticky.

I'm not sure I'm seeing a slowdown on Windows (it's really hard to time stuff on my Win98 home box), so maybe that's a clue too (but quite possibly a bogus clue).