[Python-Dev] Document performance requirements? (original) (raw)

Scott Dial scott+python-dev at scottdial.com
Tue Jul 25 00:43:57 CEST 2006

Between the two of you, I think you have made the case that the language specification is better to not include such details. As you both note, it is difficult to capture the essence of what is desired from the performance of the implementation. To tag on other version, what about Big-O space concerns with things like list.sort. I'm sure there are other things to add as well.

It seems reasonable to me that everyone has the same interests in mind when they write a program. Make it good, make it fast, make it small, etc. These sort of details should work themselves out if they are actually important. All of these algorithms should be treated as implementation accidents.

Having the information about CPython's implementation in the docs would be good. And go most of the way towards having everyone on the same page.

-- Scott Dial scott at scottdial.com scodial at indiana.edu

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