I've been restraining myself from commenting in this threads, as I don't know enough details of the implementation of Python to make reasoned arguments on how much such limits would help in the efficiency for running a Python program. I will way that in my many years of programming experience I can't think of any great cases where a language as part of the language definition limited to 'size' of a program to good effect, and generally such limits relegate a language into being seen as a 'toy language'. The biggest issue is that computers are growing more powerful every day, and programs follow in getting bigger, so any limit that we think of as more than sufficient soon becomes too small (No one will need more than 640k of RAM).
I COULD easily see on the other hand, the language stating that some implementations might impose certain limits like those being mentioned, and maybe provide lower limits of those limits, that barring system resource limits a program can expect to be able to use. If a program needs higher limits, it can use a less limiting implementation. I could see a fork of the current CPython implementation happening, where one path keeps the current lack of limits, and another branch tries imposing the limits to see how much benefit you really get. After seeing, one of the forks might just die off as not being needed any more. I would see those limits being added to the specific implementation that provide identifiable advantage to making the system better. Being done, at least initially, in a fork, there might not need to be a lot of discussion on exactly what limits to try imposing, as 'Python' as a base language wouldn't be changing, just some limits in a particular branch implementation. it still might make a lot of sense for some discussion to occur to find out if the limits being discussed are reasonable. Perhaps the one big disadvantage of this idea is that the person wanting to see what these limits might be able to do for the language would need to be more involved in seeing it happen, as there won't be the easy opportunity to propose a somewhat vague idea, get it approved, and have someone else stuck with the job of getting it done. -- Richard Damon _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/QRP32EQPAQH53NR5NGHE55MCALEBJ5J6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
