[Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O

[William Dode]

On 13-12-2008, Michael Foord wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>> I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. Python 
>> has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization flag, but we 
>> know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add psyco as standard 
>> library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco?
>>   
>
> This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev.
>
> The main reason why not is that someone(s) from the Python core team 
> would then need to 'own' maintaining Psyco (which is x86 only as well). 
> Psyco is so hard to maintain that even the original author wants to drop 
> it. :-)

It could be the killer feature wich will push python3 adoption ;-) 
Bloggers like so much benchings !

Sorry...

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