[Python-Dev] Split unicodeobject.c into subfiles (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 13:11:18 CEST 2012

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

I think you misunderstood. What I described is the reason for having the base codecs in unicodeobject.c. I think we all agree that inlining has a positive effect on performance. The scale of the effect depends on the used compiler and platform. Well. Inlining can have positive or negative effects, depending on various details. Too much inlining causes more cache misses for example. However, this is absolutely irrelevant if you don't create benchmarks and run them. Guessing is seriously not a very good optimization strategy.

Yep, that's why I made the point that speed.python.org should be a going concern well before 3.4 release, and will be able to let us know if we have a problem relative to 3.3.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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