On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:11:19 +0000 > Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > And the dropping of docstrings does have an impact on > > memory usage when you use Python at scale. > > What kind of "scale" are you talking about? Do you have any numbers > about such impact? > I know YouTube at least uses -OO and I don't have numbers to share (numbers I were last shown were years ago and I wouldn't be authorized to share anyway, but I do know they still use -OO). > > > You're also assuming that we will never develop an AST optimizer > > No, the assumption is that we don't have such an optimizer *right now*. > Having command-line options because they might be useful some day is > silly. > I'm not talking about changing any command-line option in the PEP so I don't know what you're referring to.
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