7 Mar
2001
7 Mar
'01
2:49 p.m.
Chris Withers wrote:
subobjects because acquisition only looks at object attributes. It doesn't know anything about _getOb(). (And it's not a good idea to teach it to use _getOb(); think what it would be like if a Xeon ran like a 386...)
I remember the days when... ;-)
Seriously though, why would that make it so slow? Is _getOb() often an expensive operation?
No. The expensive part is invoking Python code from C. It's the same problem described by the documentation for the Python sort() method: it's much faster to sort() then reverse() than it is to sort() with a comparison function that reverses the elements. Invoking C from Python is fast, but invoking Python from C apparently requires a lot of work. Shane