[Python-Dev] Thoughts on -O (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:11:21 +0200

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:

Was doing some thinking in the shower this morning, and came up with some ideas for specifying optimisation. These are currently quite nebulous thoughts ...

We have the current situation: -O only removes asserts -OO removes asserts and docstrings.

That's true, but not what they actually mean:

-O ... optimize the byte code without changing semantics -OO ... optimize even further, slight changes in semantics are allowed

(note that some tools rely on the availabilitiy of doc-strings)

Rather than adding more options, we should rather think about more optimizations to add ;-)

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