[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python

[Guido van Rossum]

> I've done it to find out how often and when open() is called in a large 
> application.
> 
> >A warning is fine -- even desirable.  I'd want to make sure such
> >debugging hacks didn't make it into a release. :)

> In this case too, I wouldn't mind warnings.  I would mind it if I had to 
> hack my libc to track python-level open() calls =).

In any case, the bytecode compiler isn't going to be able to generate
more efficient bytecode for open() calls...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)