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Wed Apr 13 04:34:40 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-April/110664.html

On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Trying to accelerate existing code which doesn't have the coverage is
> insane:  how can you know that the accelerator doesn't subtly change the
> semantics without tests?

But even if you do have 100% python source code branch coverage, that's not nearly enough. There are thousands of branches inside the python interpreter, which you also need to have full coverage on to *really* ensure that the behavior of the code does not subtly change.

Good luck with that.

James

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