On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Hi, > > why is the "nonecheck" directive set to False by default? Shouldn't it > rather be a "I know what I'm doing" option that allows advanced users to > trade speed for safety? > > The reason I'm asking is that I just enabled its evaluation in NoneCheckNode > and immediately got crashes in the test suite. So its currently only > half-heartedly safe because it's not being evaluated in a lot of places. > That's a rather fragile situation, not only for refactorings.
The reasoning was that we didn't want to have a major performance regression on existing code has already been written knowing these semantics, and also that we eventually plan to solve this more gracefully using control flow. - Robert _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
