[Python-Dev] PyDict_SetItem hook
Raymond Hettinger
python at rcn.com
Fri Apr 3 00:20:32 CEST 2009
>> It seems weird to me that Collin's group can be working
>> so hard just to get a percent or two improvement in
>> specific cases for pickling while python-dev is readily
>> entertaining a patch that slows down the entire language.
[Antoine Pitrou]
> I think it's really more than a percent or two:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue5670
For lists, it was a percent or two:
http://bugs.python.org/issue5671
I expect Collin's overall efforts to payoff nicely. I was
just pointing-out the contrast between module specific
optimization efforts versus anti-optimizations that affect
the whole language.
Raymond
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