[Python-Dev] with_traceback (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 1 03:52:33 CET 2007

Adam Olsen wrote:

How plausible would it be to optimize all exception instantiation? Perhaps use slots and a freelist for everything inheriting from BaseException and not inheriting from other builtin types?

I'm not sure a free list would help much for instances of user define classes, since creating one involves setting up a dict, etc. And if you use slots you end up with objects of different sizes, which isn't free-list-friendly.

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