Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
Brett Cannon wrote:
In a perfect world I would make pyc/pyo files completely optional and only an optimization that could not work w/o the corresponding source.
That wouldn't be a perfect world in every universe. For example, consider an app installed in an embedded device with limited memory -- the source is never going to be seen by anyone, and all it would do is waste resources.
If we're positing a perfect world, then all embedded devices would have the source code available and inspectable by any interested user. -- \ “We can't depend for the long run on distinguishing one | `\ bitstream from another in order to figure out which rules | _o__) apply.” —Eben Moglen, _Anarchism Triumphant_, 1999 | Ben Finney