[Python-Dev] Thoughts on -O

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:
> Was doing some thinking in the shower this morning, and came up with some ideas for specifying optimisation. These are currently quite nebulous thoughts ...
> 
> We have the current situation:
> 
> -O only removes asserts
> -OO removes asserts and docstrings.

That's true, but not what they actually mean:

-O  ... optimize the byte code without changing semantics
-OO ... optimize even further, slight changes in semantics are allowed

(note that some tools rely on the availabilitiy of doc-strings)

Rather than adding more options, we should rather think about
more optimizations to add ;-)

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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