[Python-Dev] Psyco for -OO or -O

Mon Dec 15 20:40:47 CET 2008

On 13-Dec-08, at 5:28 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>> I'm sure probably most of you knows about psyco[1], the optimizer. 
>> Python has an -O and -OO flag that is intended to be optimization 
>> flag, but we know that currently it doesn't do much. Why not add 
>> psyco as standard library and let -O or -OO invoke psyco?
>>>> This really belongs on Python-ideas and not Python-dev.
>> The main reason why not is that someone(s) from the Python core team 
> would then need to 'own' maintaining Psyco (which is x86 only as well

Worse, it is 32bit only, which has greatly diminished its usefulness 
in the last few years.
-Mike