8 Sep
2017
8 Sep
'17
10:04 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:47:20 -0700 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
However, I do wonder whether we could encode *all* the mode settings into the magic number, such that we did something like reserving the top 3 bits for format flags:
* number & 0x1FFF -> the traditional magic number * number & 0x8000 -> timestamp or hash? * number & 0x4000 -> checked or not? * number & 0x2000 -> reserved for future format changes
I'd rather a single magic number and a separate bitfield that tells what the header encodes exactly. We don't *have* to fight for a tiny size reduction of pyc files. Regards Antoine.