[Ka-Ping Yee, on various vrbl-access speedup schemes]
The last thing i remember from this discussion was spending a lot of time trying to understand everyone's implementation schemes and drawing little pictures (http://web.lfw.org/python/globals.html) to describe them.
I never heard anything back about them,
Do you read Python-Dev? Lots of people commented appreciatively on them.
and the discussion on this topic went suddenly silent after that. Was there a correlation (i hope not) or did everyone just get busy with other things?
The Python conference happened then, and that took everyone (including you) away for a week. Perhaps during the conference people realized that implementing one of these things would actually require work.
I was hoping that the figures would help us compare and evaluate the various schemes.
I'm not sure the figures can measure runtime <wink>, but they certainly helped people *understand* the proposals.