On Tuesday 09 April 2002 04:27 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: ... > I just applied a patch to typeobject.c that makes the x[y] operation > three times faster when type(x) is a subclass of list that doesn't > override __getitem__. This isn't a bug, so I didn't even think of > considering it for 2.2.1 -- but now I'm seriously rethinking that, and > it will probably end up in 2.2.2, since it also doesn't introduce any > incompatible behavior (assuming there aren't any bugs in the patch :-). *Applause*!!! This is EXACTLY the sort of thing I had in mind when I was talking about *actively supported* releases on the stable track. Exactly the kind of thing that gives managers that need to select a language a warm, fuzzy feeling ... ! *Bravo*! > But this is a serious amount of extra work -- as part of the change, I > refactored some code, etc. Sigh, I guess that's the downside:-(. Supporting stable-track releases say "this IS alive and actively supported" exactly BECAUSE it takes effort -- it's a message that validates itself as sincere. Alex
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