On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:57, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Personally, I *like* CPython fitting into the "simple-and-portable" >> niche in the Python interpreter space. >> > > Me, too! I like that I can read the CPython source and > understand what it's doing most of the time. Please don't > screw that up by attempting to perform heroic optimisations. > > -- > Following this argument to the extreme, the bytecode evaluation code of CPython can be simplified quite a bit. Lose 2x performance but gain a lot of readability. Does that sound like a good deal? I don't intend to sound sarcastic, just show that IMHO this argument isn't a good one. I think that even clever optimized code can be properly written and *documented* to make the task of understanding it feasible. Personally, I'd love CPython to be a bit faster and see no reason to give up optimization opportunities for the sake of code readability. Eli
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