Re: [Python-3000] Premature optimization and all that

2006-08-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
Guido van Rossum wrote: > Over lunch with Neal we came upon the topic of optimization and Python 3000. > > It is our strong opinion that in this stage of the Py3k project we > should focus on getting the new language spec and implementation > feature-complete, without worrying much about optimizat

[Python-3000] Premature optimization and all that

2006-08-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
Over lunch with Neal we came upon the topic of optimization and Python 3000. It is our strong opinion that in this stage of the Py3k project we should focus on getting the new language spec and implementation feature-complete, without worrying much about optimizations. We're doing major feature-l