
June 20, 2009
11:49 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Benjamin Peterson<benjamin@python.org> wrote: [snip]
Backwards Compatibility Rules =============================
This policy applys to all public APIs. These include the C-API, the standard library, and the core language including syntax and operation as defined by the reference manual.
This is the basic policy for backwards compatibility:
* The behavior of an API *must* not change between any two consecutive releases.
Is this intended to include performance changes? Clearly no-one will complain if things simply get faster, but I'm thinking about cases where, say, a function runs in half the time but uses double the memory (or vice versa). Collin