Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

[Jim V. <Jim...@no...>]

Python is supposed to be a higher-level language.  In my view, it would be nice
to avoid having to know the details of a particular vendors optimization
implementations.  To that end, I do not see the relevance of how GCC chooses to
make optimizations available.

Chuck Esterbrook wrote:

> 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
>
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