[Python-Dev] Python 3 optimizations continued... (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Aug 30 22:01:29 CEST 2011

Am 30.08.2011 20:34, schrieb stefan brunthaler:

Um, I'm sorry, but that reply sounds incredibly naive, like you're not really sure what the on-disk format for .pyc files is or why it would matter. You're not even answering the question, except indirectly -- it seems that you've never even thought about the possibility of generating a .pyc file on one platform and copying it to a computer using a different one.

Well, it may sound incredibly naive, but the truth is: I am never storing the optimized representation to disk, it's done purely at runtime when profiling tells me it makes sense to make the switch. Thus I circumvent many of the problems outlined by you. So I am positive that a full fledged change of the representation has many more intricacies to it, but my approach is only tangentially related...

You know, instead of all these half-explanations, giving us access to the code would shut us up much more effectively. Don't worry about not passing tests, this is what the official trunk does half of the time ;)

Georg

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