[Python-Dev] Split unicodeobject.c into subfiles

[Nick Coghlan]

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.

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