Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > 1. Some of the cached entries may never be accessed again, so > recalculating them will be a waste > 2. The object graph may change again before they're next accessed, so > recalculating any entries at all will be waste
Yup, hence the "cost/benefit compromise" ;-) My assumption here was that ABC registrations change quite infrequently compared to the invocations of generic functions, so transferring most of the cost to registration-time (rather than invocation-time) would be a benefit. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16832> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
