[Python-Dev] Is core dump always a bug? Advice requested

Christian Tismer tismer at stackless.com
Fri May 14 11:02:37 EDT 2004


Greg Ewing wrote:

> Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com>:
> 
> 
>>Because I prefer suitably-signed bytecode, which would
>>usually only need the key verification, but no compile
>>step.
> 
> 
> But you've just suggested decompiling and recompiling the bytecode in
> order to verify it. This can't possibly be faster than just compiling
> it.

This is not what I said and also irrelevant, since it will only
happen once on untrusted bytecode. Afterwards it is trusted
and stored together with a keyed digest for later verification.

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