[Python-Dev] ast-objects branch created

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> I'm not sure what your intent for this work is, but I'd like to create
> a parallel arena branch and compare the results.  I'll start work on
> that tomorrow.

I certainly want the PyObject* branch to become "life" at some time;
I think this is the way to go, and that an arena approach is
fundamentally flawed.

That said: go ahead and create a branch. This is one of the things
that subversion makes convenient, and it allows people to actually
judge the results when we are done. I'm personally not worried about
the duplicated work: if we actually carry out the experiment of
multiple alternative (or perhaps supplementing) implementations,
we have much better grounds to pick the approach for the mainline.

Regards,
Martin