Using psyco acceleration

[Martin Pool]

On 2006-03-06 Mon, at 10:32 AM, Ivan Krstic wrote:

> John Dong wrote:
>> Below is the quick patch I made; if psyco is installed, it'll use  
>> it in
>> the unobtrusive background profiling mode.
>
> Using it in background profiling mode is rather inefficient, as psyco
> has to learn what to pseudo-JIT on every bzr invocation. It would be
> better to do some profiling and psyco a few specific code paths  
> that can
> benefit from it, and where bzr spends a significant portion of its
> running time.
>
> If Rob and Martin support adding some psyco directives to bzr, this
> would be a neat and very quick little project for you to pick up.

I have no objection.

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Martin Pool