Op 2005-01-18, Jeremy Bowers schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:05:15 +0000, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> I don't see how generating byte code for a = 9; when seeing the >> expression a = 3 + 6, would be a problem for non-functional >> languages. > > To answer nearly every post you've made to this thread, "because Python > doesn't have the resources to program to special cases".
I was countering an argument that seemed to state doing something like that was impossible on principle in python. I was not argueing people should put any effort in this, just countering it would change python beyond recognition. > Ultimately, the use is fairly limited; I can't imagine the execution time > saved would reach the time of implementation for weeks after a release, > even aggregating across all Python use in the world, and "real time > gained" (i.e., time useful to a human) would probably never add up to the > implementation time. So why bother? That's a horrid trade off when there > are so many other real gains to be had. Well if it isn't worth the bother, so be it. I can still dream about it. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
