On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, at 15:13, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: > > I think it would be preferable deprecate -O and -OO and replace them > > with flags like --no-docstrings or --no-asserts. Ideally, "optimization" > > levels shouldn't change program semantics. > > Plenty of C compilers have optimization levels that can change > behaviour (replacing division with mult-by-reciprocal and such), so I > don't see any reason for Python to object.
Yes, but in the C world, you have pass scary flags like -ffast-math. Just -O2 generally won't reach outside of standard semantics. _______________________________________________ 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
