Gratuitous Change

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Sat Feb 3 23:40:47 EST 2001


Joshua Marshall wrote:
> 
> Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
> > 2.1 is registerless instead.  We were getting too many complaints that
> > making Python faster was disturbing carefully tuned Python delay loops
> > <wink>.
> 
> Complaints that Python was too fast?
> What constructs were being used in the delay loops that were sensitive
> to the efficiency changes?

Apparently it takes about three months for newcomers to catch on,
but I've finally graduated so:  notice the "<wink>"?  :-)



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