On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >On 3/13/2013 7:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> It's complexity cost, though, and people would need to know when it >> would be worth giving Python that switch to change its string format. >> Plus, every C extension would need to cope with both formats. I >> personally doubt it'd be worth it, but if you want to knock together a >> patched CPython and get some timing stats, I'm sure this list or >> python-dev will be happy to discuss the matter. :) > > > I presume the smiley indicates that you know that python developers are too > busy with real problems to have any interest in bogus solutions to bogus > problems.
It indicates more that the list(s) would almost certainly open up with quite a bit of discussion - especially this one. It's not hard to get talk happening, as evidenced by the number of times we've already discussed this very topic. Frankly, I doubt there'll be anything to discuss - that the patched version will be consistently worse; but if I've learned one thing about timings, it's that there are surprises *everywhere*, so I'm not prepared to state categorically that it *cannot* be better. (I will, however, state that I do not expect any such improvement to be worth the trouble of writing it.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
