On Jul 17, 2017, at 10:59, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ISTM this issue is being pressed by micro-optimizers who are being very > aggressive and not responding to actual user needs (it is more an invented > issue than a real one). Named tuple has been around for a long time and > users have been somewhat happy with it.
Regardless of whether this particular optimization is a good idea or not, start up time *is* a serious challenge in many environments for CPython in particular and the perception of Python’s applicability to many problems. I think we’re better off trying to identify and address such problems than ignoring or minimizing them. Cheers, -Barry
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