On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:04:43 +1100 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 04:46:00PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > I agree that conflating the two doesn't help the discussion. > > While removing docstrings may be beneficial on memory-constrained > > devices, I can't remember a single situation where I've wanted to > > remove asserts on a production system. > > > > (I also tend to write less and less asserts in production code, since > > all of them tend to go in unit tests instead, with the help of e.g. > > mock objects) > > I'm the opposite. I like using asserts in my code, and while I don't > *typically* run it with -O, I do think it is valuable to have to > opportunity to remove asserts. I've certainly written code where -O has > given a major micro-optimization of individual functions (anything up to > 50% speedup). I've never measured if that lead to a significant > whole-application speedup, but I assume that was some benefit. (I know, > premature optimization and all that...)
So you assumed there was some benefit, but you never used it anyway? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
