[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 27.01.2016 19:33, Brett Cannon wrote:
> And this is why this entire email thread has devolved into a 
> conversation that isn't really going anywhere. This whole thread has 
> completely lost track of the point of Victor's earlier email saying 
> "I'm still working on my FAT work and don't take any notice of the 
> performance numbers until more stuff gets finished". And this 
> discussion of what benchmarks to care about is rather pointless since 
> the core team has an implicit understanding that any performance 
> improvement is taken into consideration in terms of balancing 
> complexity in CPython with how much improvement it gets us. So if 
> someone wants to speed up Fibonacci then they are welcome to try, but 
> the solution must be maintainable in proportion to the speed increase 
> it buys Python as a whole.

+1