Re: [Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O
On 13-Dec-08, at 5:28 AM, Michael Foord wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. Python has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization flag, but we know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add psyco as standard library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco? This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev. The main reason why not is that someone(s) from the Python core team would then need to 'own' maintaining Psyco (which is x86 only as well Worse, it is 32bit only, which has greatly diminished its usefulness in the last few years. -Mike ___ 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
Re: [Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O
On 13-12-2008, Michael Foord wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: >> I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. Python >> has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization flag, but we >> know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add psyco as standard >> library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco? >> > > This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev. > > The main reason why not is that someone(s) from the Python core team > would then need to 'own' maintaining Psyco (which is x86 only as well). > Psyco is so hard to maintain that even the original author wants to drop > it. :-) It could be the killer feature wich will push python3 adoption ;-) Bloggers like so much benchings ! Sorry... -- William Dodé - http://flibuste.net Informaticien Indépendant ___ 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
Re: [Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:28:37 +, Michael Foord wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: >> I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. >> Python has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization flag, >> but we know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add psyco as >> standard library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco? >> >> > This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev. Ah yes, sorry about that, I'm new here. This will be my last post about this here... ___ 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
Re: [Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O
Lie Ryan wrote: I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. Python has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization flag, but we know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add psyco as standard library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco? This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev. The main reason why not is that someone(s) from the Python core team would then need to 'own' maintaining Psyco (which is x86 only as well). Psyco is so hard to maintain that even the original author wants to drop it. :-) Michael Foord [1] http://psyco.sourceforge.net/index.html ___ 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/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog ___ 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
[Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O
I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. Python has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization flag, but we know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add psyco as standard library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco? [1] http://psyco.sourceforge.net/index.html ___ 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
