Brett Cannon added the comment:
After thinking about it and with _warnings.c not exactly changing very much I
think I'm going to call YAGNI on ripping out _warnings.c.
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resolution: -> works for me
status: open -> closed
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Brett Cannon added the comment:
Here are the benchmark results of freezing warnings.py as _frozen_warnings
(very quick hack which doesn't use _frozen_warnings is attached). Basically -S
slows down by about 3% and normal startup has no measurable impact. Not sure if
that's worth it to simplify
Brett Cannon added the comment:
I should also mention the other motivating factor was providing C access to the
warnings system, but once again importlib blazed that trail already by
providing a C API which simply uses the Python code.
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New submission from Brett Cannon:
_warnings.c was initially created to help with startup performance. It turned
out to be a tricky bit of code to get right to continue to support the Python
version of the module.
But now that we live in a world where we have startup benchmarks instead of
