[Python-Dev] Design Philosophy: Performance vs Robustness/Maintainability (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 12:16:52 EDT 2017


2017-07-18 18:08 GMT+02:00 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:

Raymond Hettinger: -----------------

And complexity leads to bugs (the C optimization of random number seeding caused a major bug in the 3.6.0 release

Hum, I guess that Raymond is referring to http://bugs.python.org/issue29085

This regression was not by an optimization at all, but a change to harden Python: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0524/

Victor



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