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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