Sept. 2, 2004
10:25 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
If there is a fallback already, why do you want the backport? Just use the fallback.
Because the fallback is slower?
I see. However, people with existing installation will have to suffer from the slow-down, anyway; people will need to upgrade in order to see the speed improvement. If they need the speed advantage (which is exactly how much?), they should consider upgrading to 2.4. That an extension module runs slower in 2.3 than it does in 2.3 is not a bug in 2.3 - a lot of things run slower in 2.3, yet we don't backport all performance changes to 2.3, especially if code has to be adopted to make use of it. Regards, Martin