John Ehresman wrote:
* To what extent should non-debugger code use the hook? At one end of
the spectrum, the hook could be made readily available for non-debug use
and at the other end, it could be documented as being debug only,
disabled in python -O, & not exposed in the stdlib to python code.
To explain Collin's mail:
Python's dict implementation is crucial to the performance of any Python
program. Modules, types, instances all rely on the speed of Python's
dict type because most of them use a dict to store their name space.
Even the smallest change to the C code may lead to a severe performance
penalty. This is especially true for set and get operations.
See my comments in http://bugs.python.org/issue5654
Raymond
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