[Zope] Zope and python -O

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jerome ALET wrote:
> I wondered why the default installation of Zope doesn't use the -O option
> on the python command line in order to produce .pyo objects instead of
> .pyc ones ?
> 
> aren't .pyo programs supposed to be "optimized" (and maybe run faster)
> versus "non-optimized" .pyc ?
> 
> are .pyo really faster than .pyc ?

   They are not much faster. May be 1%...

> what are the drawbacks ?

   Loosing line numbers in tracebacks. Zope (thanks a lot) put full tracback
in the standard_html_error.

Oleg.
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