[Python-Dev] Optimization versus code bloat (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Dec 29 09:52:46 EST 2003


I posted a patch[1] optimizing str.split with specialized splitter as unicode.split do. The patch accellates str.split about 10~20% and adds about 50 lines. I'm curious whether it's acceptable ratio for python-dev moods.

[1] http://www.python.org/sf/866875

Works for me -- split is a pretty common operation! I might even use this speedup in the Parrot benchmark. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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