Using psyco acceleration

[John Dong]

bzr is such a small (code size wise, compared to some other python beasts)
that I don't think it's a concern, but nonetheless I'll bear it in mind in
my future testing.

On 3/5/06, Diwaker Gupta <diwaker.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The memory overhead of Psyco is something to bear in mind. This is
> from the website:
>
> "The memory overhead of Psyco is currently large. I has been reduced a
> bit over time, but it is still an overhead. This overhead is
> proportional to the amount of Python code that Psyco rewrites; thus if
> your application has a few algorithmic "core" functions, these are the
> ones you will want Psyco to accelerate --- not the whole program."
>
> Diwaker
>
> On 3/5/06, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Martin Pool
> >
> >
> >
> >
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