Message 189133 - Python tracker

Message189133

Author	pitrou
Recipients	kristjan.jonsson, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2013-05-13.14:05:08
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> I don't want guaranteed O(1) behaviour, just O(1) for the common case > of creating a class, or a few classes, and then removing them. Then just make sure you call remove_subclass() before PyObject_ClearWeakRefs() in type_dealloc(). Really, this thing should be demonstrably correct. Performance of dynamic class creation is not critical enough to take shortcuts.

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> I don't want guaranteed O(1) behaviour, just O(1) for the common case
> of creating a class, or a few classes, and then removing them.

Then just make sure you call remove_subclass() before PyObject_ClearWeakRefs()
in type_dealloc().

Really, this thing should be demonstrably correct. Performance of dynamic
class creation is not critical enough to take shortcuts.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2013-05-13 14:05:08	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, kristjan.jonsson, vstinner
2013-05-13 14:05:08	pitrou	link	issue17936 messages
2013-05-13 14:05:08	pitrou	create