[Python-ideas] Disable all peephole optimizations

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 24 May 2014 02:49, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not happy with the direction this is taking. I would prefer an
> approach that *first* implements the minimal thing (an internal flag, set
> by an environment variable, to disable the peephole optimizer) and *then*
> perhaps revisits the greater UI for specifying optimization levels and the
> consequences this has for pyc/pyo files.
>
> Sure, that sounds like a reasonable approach, too. My perspective is
> mainly coloured by the fact that we're still in the "eh, feature freeze is
> still more than a year away" low urgency period for 3.5 :)
>
Yeah, and I'm countering that not every project needs to land a week before
the feature freeze. :-)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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