On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:35:21AM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > You didn't answer my question: did you actually use -OO in production, > or not? Saying that -OO could have helped you optimize something you > didn't care about isn't a very strong argument for -OO :)
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood your question. I didn't use -OO, since I had no reason to remove docstrings. But I did use -O to remove asserts. I was talking about assertions, not docstrings. Since I haven't had to write code for embedded devices with severely constrained memory, I've never cared about using -OO in production. > What I would like to know is if people *knowingly* add costly asserts > to performance-critical code, with the intent of disabling them at > runtime using -OO. Yes, I have knowingly added costly asserts to code with the intend of disabling them at runtime. Was it *performance-critical* code? I don't know, that was the point of my earlier rambling -- I could demonstrate a speedup of the individual functions in benchmarks, but nobody spent the effort to determine which functions were performance critical. -- Steven _______________________________________________ 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
