[Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O
Mike Klaas
mike.klaas at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 20:40:47 CET 2008
On 13-Dec-08, at 5:28 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>> I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer.
>> Python has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization
>> flag, but we know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add
>> psyco as standard library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco?
>>
>
> This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev.
>
> The main reason why not is that someone(s) from the Python core team
> would then need to 'own' maintaining Psyco (which is x86 only as well
Worse, it is 32bit only, which has greatly diminished its usefulness
in the last few years.
-Mike
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