[Python-Dev] PEP 488: elimination of PYO files

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:11:19 +0000
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> And the dropping of docstrings does have an impact on
> memory usage when you use Python at scale.

What kind of "scale" are you talking about? Do you have any numbers
about such impact?

> You're also assuming that we will never develop an AST optimizer

No, the assumption is that we don't have such an optimizer *right now*.
Having command-line options because they might be useful some day is
silly.

Regards

Antoine.