Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 05:30 PM 4/23/2001 +0200, Steve Purcell wrote:
>Hence my suggestion that -O be used *only* to remove asserts. Then you and I
>would not use '-O' ever, and the interpreter would deal with optimisations
>in a manner transparent to our code.

GCC didn't make optimization transparent for these two reasons:

- Different degrees of optimization cost so much extra time during 
compilation that you didn't want them during development.

- Bugs were sometimes discovered in optimizations, so you wanted to turn 
them off.


Perhaps these problems could be avoided in Python, but more often that not 
I like to be able to turn off the "fancy stuff" when it's not working out 
for me.

-Chuck