Message 127818 - Python tracker

Message127818

Author	pitrou
Recipients	belopolsky, pitrou, scoder
Date	2011-02-03.20:20:16
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> Hmm, ok, but AFAICT, your patch was rejected rather because of the way > it approached the problem, not so much because of the issue itself. I would be rather for the patch myself. The bytecode currently generated for sliced indexing is awfully suboptimal. > Plus, the fact that Python 3 requires slices in more places than > Python 2 (which had the lower level getslice protocol) makes this a > bigger issue now than it was three years ago. True.

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> Hmm, ok, but AFAICT, your patch was rejected rather because of the way
> it approached the problem, not so much because of the issue itself.

I would be rather for the patch myself. The bytecode currently generated
for sliced indexing is awfully suboptimal.

> Plus, the fact that Python 3 requires slices in more places than
> Python 2 (which had the lower level getslice protocol) makes this a
> bigger issue now than it was three years ago.

True.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-03 20:20:16	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, belopolsky, scoder
2011-02-03 20:20:16	pitrou	link	issue11107 messages
2011-02-03 20:20:16	pitrou	create