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Thu Mar 1 03:55:29 CET 2007 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071435.html

On 2/28/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Adam Olsen wrote:
>
> > How plausible would it be to optimize all exception instantiation?
> > Perhaps use slots and a freelist for everything inheriting from
> > BaseException and not inheriting from other builtin types?
>
> I'm not sure a free list would help much for instances
> of user define classes, since creating one involves setting
> up a dict, etc. And if you use __slots__ you end up with
> objects of different sizes, which isn't free-list-friendly.

Not easy, but doable.  Perhaps a plan B if nobody comes up with a plan A.

-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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