[Python-Dev] try-except slower in 2.6 (was: performance) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Aug 25 17:42:41 CEST 2008


M.-A. Lemburg <mal egenix.com> writes:

That's a huge slow-down compared to 2.5. Are there any obvious reasons for this ? Has the exception handling mechanism changed that much between 2.5 and 2.6 ?

I've looked at it a bit and I think it's because of the issubclass()/isinstance() slowdown (which itself is due to ABCs).

If I apply the patch in http://bugs.python.org/issue2534, the exception handling slowdown seems to disappear.



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