[Python-Dev] New branch for r23c2 work (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:35:43 +0200

On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 08:15 Europe/Amsterdam, Anthony Baxter wrote:

Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?= wrote OTOH, we shouldn't work around performance problems on certain systems. Instead, we should report them to the system vendors and wait for fixes from them. In this case, though, it seems that we only developed the performance-impacting code between Python2.1 and Python2.2.

Not really: Python 2.1 used the getaddrinfo() emulation on OSX, because OSX 10.1, which was then current, didn't have a working getaddrinfo() at all.

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