Automatic Generation of Python Class Files

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 19:35:12 EDT 2007


Fuzzyman wrote:
> On Oct 22, 6:43 pm, Steven Bethard <steven.beth... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> # Inherit from object. There's no reason to create old-style classes.
> 
> We recently had to change an object pipeline from new style classes to
> old style. A lot of these objects were being created and the *extra
> overhead* of new style classes was killing us. :-)

I'm curious.  Was it memory or speed overhead that was the problem?

Steve



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