Hey Daniel, On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Stutzbach <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Reid Kleckner <r...@mit.edu> wrote: >> >> I don't think this will help you solve your problem, but one thing >> we've done in unladen swallow is to hack PyType_Modified to invalidate >> our own descriptor caches. We may eventually want to extend that into >> a callback interface, but it probably will never be considered an API >> that outside code should depend on. > > Thanks Reid and Benjamin for the information. > > I think I see a way to dramatically speed up PyObject_RichCompareBool when > comparing immutable, built-in, non-container objects (int, float, str, > etc.). It would speed up list.sort when the key is one of those types, as > well as most operations on the ubiquitous dictionary with str keys.
That definitely sounds worth pursuing. > Is that a worthwhile avenue to pursue, or is it likely to be redundant with > Unladen Swallow's optimizations? I don't believe it will be redundant with the optimizations in Unladen Swallow. > If I can find time to pursue it, would it be best for me to implement it as > a patch to Unladen Swallow, CPython trunk, or CPython py3k? I would recommend patching py3k, with a backport to trunk. Thanks, Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com